School-aged children who experience homelessness face significant mental and physical health challenges that can prevent students from focusing on their education. These challenges can result in students who are experiencing homelessness becoming chronically absent from school. Even after just one year of chronic absenteeism, students are significantly less likely to complete high school.
Stout estimates 9,053 children avoided disruptive displacement due to Right to Counsel and approximately 23% of households indicated they would experience homelessness if they had to move. Students experiencing homelessness are at an increased risk of not completing high school. In Cuyahoga County, approximately 44% of students who experienced homelessness did not complete high school in the 2022-2023 school year.