1,078 Santa Rosa County students were identified as McKinney-Vento eligible at the end of the 2023-2024school year

67 were identified as McKinney-Vento eligible Unaccompanied Youths

They are the families and individuals who lack a fixed, adequate nighttime residence. For example:

• A family lives in a campsite, emergency or transitional shelter or abandoned in hospitals.

• A family temporarily lives with more than one family in a house, mobile home, or apartment because the family doesn't have a place of their own due to economic hardship.

• A family lives in a car, park, public space, abandoned building, substandard housing, bus, or train station.

• A family lives in a motel or hotel due to lack of alternate accommodations.

• A family lives in a location not ordinarily used as regular sleeping accommodations (e.g., abandoned building, storage facility, etc.)

• A child/youth in a home is an unaccompanied youth (youth not in the physical custody of a parent or guardian).

• A family living in substandard housing (lacks electricity, water, heating)