Living in Substandard Housing Linked to Kids' Missed Schooling and Poor Grades

How housing can affect your child’s grades at school

Discover how living conditions influence children's school performance and grades, based on a recent study linking substandard housing with missed schooling and lower academic achievement.

Poor housing conditions harm children’s school attendance and grades

Children living in substandard housing in England miss 15 more school days and achieve worse test scores in English and maths than their peers living in better quality housing, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.

Living in substandard housing linked to kids' missed schooling and poor grades

Children living in substandard housing in England miss 15 more school days and achieve worse test scores in English and math than their peers living in better quality housing, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.

Poor housing linked to missed school and lower grades

New research suggests children living in substandard homes in England miss more school and achieve lower grades than their peers.  The research, published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, drew on data from the nationally representative Millennium CoHort Study, including 8,992 children born between 2000 and 2002.  Housing quality at age seven was measured using six indicators: accommodation type, floor level, lack of access to a…

Children in poor quality housing miss more school

17.12.2025 - Children living in damp and overcrowded homes missed three weeks more of school over the course of compulsory education than their peers in better-quality housing.

Damp and overcrowded homes linked to poorer school attendance and ...

Children living in low quality housing in England are found to be at an educational disadvantage compared to their peers in better homes