NY1 | One in eight New York City public school students was homeless at some point during the last school year.

That amounts to 138,000 students — a figure that is down from about 154,000 the year before.

“The number remains incredibly high, and much higher than it was ten years ago. So this is not, you know, listen, I hope it keeps ongoing in that trajectory. But this is not something like the city has solved family homelessness by any stretch of the imagination,” Jennifer Pringle, the project director for learners in temporary housing at the organization Advocates for Children, said.

It is the eleventh year in a row that more than 100,000 public school students across the five boroughs were homeless.

Of those children, 50,700 spent time in a shelter; another 81,100 were doubled up — sharing someone else’s housing after losing their own. The remainder were in other forms of temporary housing, according to Advocates for Children, which compiles the information each year.