Stockings of Hope

Did you know...

• At the conclusion of the 2013-2014 school year, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools reported a system-wide enrollment of 4,131 identified homeless students. That number is almost certainly too low, because it doesn’t include non-school-age children, nor does it account for students who are very good at keeping their homelessness from teachers and school administrators.

• Homeless children live in unstable conditions that include shelters, pay-by-the-week motels, doubled-up or tripled-up with others and in cars. Because of the instability they experience, these children are:
•Hungry twice as often as other children;
•Sick four times more often;
•Two to three grade levels behind and twice as likely to repeat a grade; and
•Experience emotional and behavioral problems three times more than their housed peers
•The national graduation rate for homeless children is below 25%.
• Each holiday stocking requires approximately $15 to produce.