Study: Bed-Stuy, Brownsville school districts have the highest percentage of homeless students
One in Five Students in Districts 16 and 23 Were Homeless in 2014-15 School Year, Report Reveals
A new study shows that two Central Brooklyn school districts rank first and second in the borough on the most disheartening of lists: Percentages of homeless students.
In the 2014-15 school year, 16 percent of students in Bedford-Stuyvesant’s District 16, and a nearly identical percentage in District 23 in Ocean Hill-Brownsville, were living in homeless shelters, according to the findings of a just-released study by the Manhattan-based Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness (ICPH).
The nonprofit group’s analysis of homelessness in New York City schools — first reported by Kings County Politics — placed District 16 first in Brooklyn and third citywide in percentage of homeless students, and District 23 second in the borough and fourth citywide. In each district, one in five students had experienced homelessness in the past five years, the study revealed.