Homeless Primary Nighttime Residence Type

Homeless Primary Nighttime Residence Type: WISEdata

Homeless Primary Nighttime Residence Type indicates the kind of impermanent housing or lack of housing where the homeless student stays at night. This value is required for all students with a Student Homeless Program Association.

Uses:

Homeless data will be used to meet disaggregated data requirements of the United States Department of Education using the Education Data Exchange Network (EDEN). At a minimum, disaggregated enrollment, dropout, graduation, and assessment data will be provided. The primary purpose of the data will be to determine the status of the education of students experiencing homelessness in general and to evaluate the effectiveness of programs supported by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (under ESSA Title IX, Part A).

FAQs, Details, and Points to Note

Residence Option Descriptions:

Shelters and Transitional Housing: Temporary accommodation for homeless individuals and families, as a step to permanent housing. Residents of transitional housing are considered homeless until they move into permanent housing. Transitional housing programs may last up to 24 months, provide housing in addition to wraparound services, and typically require participants to pay a portion of their housing costs based on a sliding scale.
1. Doubled Up: This means sharing the housing of other persons due to economic hardship, loss of housing, or similar reasons.
2. Hotel/Motels: Children, youth, and unaccompanied youth who are temporarily living in hotels and motels
3. Unsheltered: Children, youth, or unaccompanied youth who live in abandoned buildings or apartments, bus and train stations, campgrounds, cars, parks, public spaces, trailer parks, children abandoned in hospitals, and children and youth who live in **substandard or inadequate housing.
  1. Unsheltered includes children and youth who are living in substandard or inadequate housing, including trailer homes that are "inadequate." These housing situations do not easily fit into any category and are judged on a case-by-case basis by the district homeless liaison.
Updating Residence Value: You can update the residence type for a homeless student's program association at any time without needing to create a brand new homeless program submission. The program data, including Begin Date, can remain in place when updating the residence value. Schools would need to create a new homeless program submission if the student transfers schools or a new school year starts. See the use cases below for guidance.
When is Primary Nighttime Residence established? A student’s primary nighttime residence is determined at the time of the initial identification of homelessness. This means districts do not need to re-collect the Primary Nighttime Residence after the student is initially identified as homeless.