• Over 24,000 Washington children experience homelessness each year.
• 242,000 children live in poverty in Washington.
• Washington ranks 39th in the country for its number of homeless children.
• An estimated 20 % of homeless children do not attend school nationally.
• Those who do attend are suspended twice as often and are more likely to repeat a grade.
• Only one in four homeless children graduates from high school.
• Homeless children are in bad health twice as often as other children and are four times more likely to have asthma.
• Homeless children are twice as likely to go hungry as other children.

Statistics from the National Center on Family Homelessness