Fifth-grader Nick Lara sleeps at night in a twin-size bed he shares with the 7-year-old daughter of his dad's girlfriend. Above the children, his honor roll report cards are proudly displayed, tacked to the walls of the motel they live in.

The family lives in a 150-square-foot room along Interstate 35E in northwest Dallas in one of several extended-stay motels with families who send their children to Arlington Park Community Learning Center.

A third of the school's students are considered homeless, children who live in motels, shelters or cars or who sleep on a borrowed couch.

With only nine children considered above the poverty mark, Arlington Park demonstrates the extra lengths schools must go to in meeting the needs of children whose families struggle to survive. It is also a startling reminder of homeless students, whom educators say they are seeing in greater numbers.

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