The data has been found! Education for Homeless Children & Youth Program

Found the data about homeless children in the US and it is broken down by state.  Thanks National Center for Homeless Education.

Data was just published in June 2011 and it reflects 2010 year with comparisons to earlier years.  It is compile through U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) which requires all State Educational Agencies (SEAs) and Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) to submit information regarding child and youth homelessness. (That's the form  found and mentioned in a earlier post)

The online portal for the Consolidated State Performance Report opened for manual entry and certification on November 8, 2010, and closed on December 17, 2010. The portal reopened for corrections and recertification on February 28, 2011, and closed on March 16, 2011. All fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) submitted SY 2009-10 data.

For Ohio it is--

Total  for 2007/08: 14,483,     % change between 07/08 and 08/09(1 year):11
Total for 2008/09 : 16,509      % change between 08/09 and 09/10(1 year) :19
Total for 2009/10: 19,113       % change between 07/08 and 09/10(3 year): 32

For all reporting sites:  See the figure below

(obtained from the Education for Homeless Children & Youth program SY 2009-2010 SCPR Data Collection pg 11.)

Possible factors to which these increases and decreases could be attributed include:

• Economic downturn (for example, students becoming homeless due to foreclosure) 
• Natural disasters 
• Changes in data collection as States align their data collection processes with the requirements of EDFacts and the CSPR

The four States comprising the largest percentages of the total national enrollment of homeless students in LEAs with and without McKinney-Vento subgrants in SY 2009-10 were, in order, California (21%), New York (9 percent), Texas (8 percent), and Florida (5 percent). The combined number of students in these four States (400,995) was 43% of the total enrolled (939,903).
(obtained from the Education for Homeless Children & Youth program SY 2009-2010 SCPR Data Collection pg 11.)

According to the report only 4% of these homeless children live in unsheltered environment.  Still though 4% is a large number when you are thinking children K-12. (pg 15)

(obtained from the Education for Homeless Children & Youth program SY 2009-2010 SCPR Data Collection pg 15.)

Also according to the report,  academic progress of Homeless children is affected. (page 25 & 27)

(obtained from the Education for Homeless Children & Youth program SY 2009-2010 SCPR Data Collection pg 25)

 

 

 

(obtained from the Education for Homeless Children & Youth program SY 2009-2010 SCPR Data Collection pg 27.)

 Click here to read/view the entire 35 page report.