The number of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools students experiencing homelessness approached 6,000 last school year, district data show. Homelessness rose in surrounding districts, too.
The number of students identified as homeless in CMS rose to 5,704 during the 2024-25 school year, the latest available data. That was up from 5,447 the previous year. And in 2020, the number in CMS was 3,011, according to district data, though data collection and reporting may have been disrupted in 2020 due to the pandemic.
Still, the number of CMS students identified as homeless during the 2021-22 school year was 4,206. That means the district saw a 35.6% increase between then and the 2024-25 school year…