The number of homeless students attending schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District grew by 50 percent last year, to 17,258 students—the highest number recorded by the city.

Because of that, you might think that LA Unified would be among the school districts in the state with the highest proportion of homeless students, but it doesn’t even crack the top 10. Proportion is the keyword. While LA Unified has the largest number of homeless students of any school district in the state—and is the largest school district in the state— other school districts have a greater percentage of homeless students, as reported by EdSource in a special report on homeless students.

At LA Unified, 3.4 percent of the district’s students were homeless last year, according to district officials. The district with the highest percentage of homeless students was Baker Valley Unified in San Bernardino County, with 52 percent of its students reporting being homeless in 2016, according to EdSource.

But the number of homeless students in LA Unified has more than doubled since the 2014–15 school year, when it was 6,090 students.

Read the full article about homeless students in L.A. by Sarah Favot at The 74.