GREEN BAY – During the 2023-24 school year, 20,195 Wisconsin public school students were identified as homeless, the highest number seen since 2019 and a 9.1% increase from the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Policy Institute.
This is a trend that has impacted students in the Green Bay area as well, seeing a consistent rise in the number of students identified as homeless in Brown County since the 2020-21 school year.
In the 2023-24 school year, 1,468 students in Brown County were identified as homeless, 1,134 of whom are students in the Green Bay Area Public School District (GBAPS)…