MCKINNEY-VENTO
Highline Schools supports children who are experiencing homelessness as defined by Title X and who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence as well as students who are in temporary foster care. This includes students living in shelters, transitional housing, temporary group homes, doubled-up with other families, moving from home to home, living unsheltered, living in a hotel or motel, or living in public or private places not designed for or ordinarily used as regular sleeping accommodations due to loss of housing because of financial or catastrophic events.
The district supports McKinney-Vento qualified students living with their families and students living on their own as unaccompanied youth (that is students living without the physical or financial support of their guardians or parents).
McKinney-Vento Students - Know Your Rights and Stay in School
- Right to continue at School of Origin – even if students move outside of the school’s normal boundaries.
- Right to Immediate Enrollment at new school that serves current address.
- Right to Transportation Support to School of Origin when feasible.
- Free nutrition services.
- Assistance with School Fees- including: ASB, field trips, classroom fees and lab fees, etc.
- Help obtaining extra academic supports, school supplies, and basic clothing if needed.
- Help connecting to social service supports.
To access McKinney-Vento Services, students or guardians (or adults caring for unaccompanied youth) can speak with the school counselor or school designee, or they can call the district’s McKinney-Vento office at 206-988-7259 or 206-277-5904.
By self-identifying McKinney-Vento status, students get the support they need to stay in school!
15675 Ambaum Blvd SW
Burien, WA 98166
Phone: 206.277.5904
Fax: 206.433.2110
Phone: 206.988.7259
Additional information about homeless services is available through:
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
Melinda Dyer
Program Manager, Homeless Children and Youth
Phone: 360-725-6050