City Limits | The analysis by Advocates for Children (AFC) uses data from the state’s Education Department and shows a 23 percent increase from the prior year, the largest single year jump in nine years of recorded data.

“Children who were in kindergarten the first year the city hit the ignominious 100,000 threshold have now started high school,” the report said. “There are more students without a permanent place to call home than there are seats at Yankee Stadium and Citi Field combined.”

Students in some New York City neighborhoods were more likely to experience homelessness than others. In Bushwick, East Harlem, Brownsville, and the Northwest Bronx, over one in five students experienced homelessness last year.

Those disparities highlight the need for policy changes, AFC argued in a statement. “Right now, districts receive no additional per-pupil funding from the State to help meet the educational needs of students in temporary housing,” said Kim Sweet, executive director of AFC.

Students who experience homelessness “face tremendous obstacles to success in school,” the report said, including being three times as likely to drop out, scoring 20 percentage points lower on English Language Arts (ELA proficiency), and higher rates of chronic absenteeism.

“While the City works to help families find permanent housing, it must also focus more attention on helping students succeed in school,” said Jennifer Pringle, director of AFC’s Learners in Temporary Housing Project, in a statement.