McKinney-Vento Act

Homeless Students

WHO IS HOMELESS?    Homeless students are those who lack a fixed, regular, adequate nighttime residence. This includes students who are sharing the housing due to loss of housing, economic hardship or similar reason; are living in motels, hotels, trailer parks, or campgrounds due to lack of alternative adequate accommodations; are living in emergency or transitional shelters; are abandoned in hospitals. The definition includes migratory students who live in the aforementioned situations.

Beginning Dec. 10, 2016, “those awaiting foster care placement” are not included in the definition.