AUSTIN (KXAN) – With more than 70,000 students, Austin Independent School District is the largest school district in Central Texas.

About 1,000 of those students are experiencing homelessness, according to AISD data.

KXAN requested data about students in AISD experiencing homelessness from 2019 to 2025 back in December.

At that time there were 1,368 students who were experiencing homelessness in the district.

The number of students can rise and fall through the year, as this population does move from time-to-time, and it can happen unexpectedly.

Since 2019, the numbers of students experiencing homelessness has increased and decreased from year-to-year, but overall the numbers have remained above 1,200 students.

The McKinney-Vento Act is a federal law that ensures homeless children an

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