<div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The number of homeless public school students in New York City reached an all-time high of 119,320 last school year, according to new data released Wednesday, as migrants crossing the southern border continued to flock to the city.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">Since last summer alone, more than 30,000 new students in temporary housing have enrolled in city schools, including some 12,000 in the last five months who were not reflected in the data.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The statistics — which include children in shelters, hotels, relatives’ homes and other transient places — illuminate the challenges for Mayor Eric Adams’s administration in handling the rise in homeless students. They are uniquely vulnerable, dropping out at steep rates and often missing school. New York City’s homeless student population is now larger than the entire traditional public school system of Philadelphia.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">As the system’s overall enrollment shrinks, the rise in homelessness among children means the issue has touched more schools. Now, about 1 in 9 New York City students are homeless. Some areas of the city have been especially hard hit, however. In one section of the Bronx, more than 22 percent of students were homeless.</p></div>

<div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">The numbers are swelling as the city grapples with a housing shortage and schools face <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/nyregion/nyc-schools-financial-crisis.html" title="">intense financial pressures</a>. The constraints have left some crucial services for homeless students in the system, the nation’s largest, increasingly under threat.</p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0">“The situation is becoming more dire,” leaders at Advocates for Children of New York, the nonprofit that has collected the <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://advocatesforchildren.org/students_experiencing_homelessness_22-23" title="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">state data</a> for more than a decade, warned in a news release.</p><div class="css-13l3kwg"><div class="css-121kum4"><div class="css-asuuk5"><noscript><div class="css-7axq9l" data-testid="optimistic-truncator-noscript"><svg width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" aria-hidden="true" class="css-pug69g"><path fill="currentColor" fill-rule="evenodd" d="M2.5 12a9.5 9.5 0 1 1 19 0 9.5 9.5 0 0 1-19 0Zm8.5 1.75v-7.5h2v7.5h-2Zm0 2v2h2v-2h-2Z" clip-rule="evenodd"></path></svg><div data-testid="optimistic-truncator-noscript-message" class="css-6yo1no"><p class="css-iq5yh5">We are having trouble retrieving the article content.</p><p class="css-iq5yh5">Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.</p></div></div></noscript><div class="css-1dv1kvn" tabindex="-1"><hr><p>We are confirming your access to this article, this will take just a moment. However, if you are using Reader mode please&nbsp;<a href="https://myaccount.nytimes.com/auth/login?response_type=cookie&amp;client_id=mpc&amp;redirect_uri=">log in</a>,&nbsp;<a data-testid="subscribe-link" href="https://www.nytimes.com/subscription">subscribe</a>, or exit Reader mode since we are unable to verify access in that state.</p><hr></div><div class="css-1g71tqy"><div data-testid="optimistic-truncator-message" class="css-6yo1no"><p class="css-iq5yh5">Confirming article access.</p><p class="css-iq5yh5">If you are a subscriber, please&nbsp;log in.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div>

Tens of thousands of migrant children have enrolled in public schools, but many of them do not have a consistent place to live.{ai:summary}<p>The number of homeless public school students in New York City reaches an all-time high, with over 30,000 new students in temporary housing enrolling in city schools. The rise in homelessness among children presents challenges for the city's administration and the education system, as they are uniquely vulnerable and often miss school. #education</p>