California Student Homelessness Reaches Record High Of Nearly 300,000

California recorded 298,254 kindergarten through 12th grade students experiencing homelessness during the 2024–2025 school year, the highest number reported in the state and 10% above the previous peak during the 2018–2019 school year. According to a report published August 25, 2026, by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for the Transformation of Schools, student homelessness is particularly concentrated in certain school districts and disproportionately affects Black and American Indian/Alaska Native students. The findings also link housing instability to poorer school attendance, academic achievement, graduation, and college-going outcomes.;

Student homelessness varied considerably across . . .