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Head Start Statistical Fact Sheets

Head Start Statistical Fact Sheets for the years:

2001 Head Start Fact Sheet

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Head Start Budget

Programs FY-2000
Actual FY-2001
Appropriation
Local Head Start Projects
Projects in States and Territories…………… $4,751,748,000 $5,594,883,000
Native American and Migrant Programs…… $ 351,159,000 $ 416,134,000
Subtotal ……………………………………….. $5,102,907,000 $6,011,017,000
Support Activities
Training and Technical Assistance………….. $ 129,404,000 $ 154,895,000
Research, Demonstration and Evaluation… $ 17,000,000 $ 17,000,000
Monitoring/Program Review………………… $ 16,900,000 $ 16,900,000
Subtotal……………………………………….. $ 163,304,000 $ 188,795,000
TOTAL…………………….. $5,266,211,000 $6,199,812,000



HEAD START BUREAU
330 C STREET, S.W.
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20447

Head Start Facts
The Head Start program is administered by the Head Start Bureau, the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACFY), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Grants are awarded by the ACF Regional Offices and the Head Start Bureau's American Indian and Migrant Program Branches directly to local public agencies, private non-profit and for-profit organizations, Indian Tribes and school systems for the purpose of operating Head Start programs at the community level.

FY-2000 Data

ENROLLMENT 857,664
Ages:
Number of 5 year olds and older 5%
Number of 4 year olds 56%
Number of 3 year olds 33%
Number under 3 years of age 6%
Racial/Ethnic Composition
American Indian 3.3%
Hispanic 28.7%
Black 34.5%
White 30.4%
Asian 2.0%
Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 1.0%
NUMBER OF GRANTEES 1,525
Number of Classrooms 46,225
Number of Centers 18,200
AVERAGE COST PER CHILD $5,951
PAID STAFF 180,400
VOLUNTEERS 1,252,000



During the 1999-2000 operating period

12.7 percent of the Head Start enrollment consisted of children with disabilities, (mental retardation, health impairments, visual handicaps, hearing impairments, emotional disturbance, speech and language impairments, orthopedic handicaps and learning disabilities).

668 programs operated a home-based program. 5,200 home visitors provided home- based services to over 48,000 children.

32 percent of the staff were parents of current or former Head Start children. Over 800,000 parents volunteered in their local Head Start program.

Head Start programs are encouraged to use non-Head Start resources in their communities for Head Start children and their families. 59 percent of Head Start children were enrolled in the Medicaid/Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) program which pays for their medical and dental services.

The 1994 reauthorization of the Head Start Act established a new Early Head Start program for low-income families with infants and toddlers. In Fiscal Year 2000, $421,360,000 was used to support nearly 600 projects to provide Early Head Start child development and family support services in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. These projects served 45,100 children under the age of three.



FISCAL YEAR 2000 STATE ALLOCATIONS

STATE DOLLARS ENROLLMENT
ALABAMA $82,414,000 15,823
ALASKA 9,738,000 1,297
ARIZONA 73,697,000 11,882
ARKANSAS 48,379,000 10,316
CALIFORNIA 642,512,000 95,280
COLORADO 52,226,000 9,333
CONNECTICUT 41,674,000 6,857
DELAWARE 9,820,000 2,119
District of Columbia 20,926,000 3,345
FLORIDA 195,696,000 32,389
GEORGIA 126,281,000 21,580
HAWAII 18,199,000 2,916
IDAHO 16,098,000 2,387
ILLINOIS 214,965,000 37,767
INDIANA 72,467,000 13,323
IOWA 40,714,000 7,235
KANSAS 37,061,000 7,447
KENTUCKY 85,198,000 15,701
LOUISIANA 110,318,000 20,975
MAINE 20,378,000 3,631
MARYLAND 61,920,000 9,968
MASSACHUSETTS 85,917,000 12,250
MICHIGAN 186,842,000 33,769
MINNESOTA 56,401,000 9,715
MISSISSIPPI 129,843,000 25,455
MISSOURI 93,475,000 16,574
MONTANA 15,267,000 2,703
NEBRASKA 26,660,000 4,571
NEVADA 12,369,000 2,035
NEW HAMPSHIRE 9,838,000 1,425
NEW JERSEY 104,743,000 14,567
NEW MEXICO 38,374,000 7,135
NEW YORK 342,136,000 46,805
NORTH CAROLINA 104,684,000 17,808
NORTH DAKOTA 11,973,000 2,042
OHIO 196,684,000 38,261
OKLAHOMA 61,555,000 12,655
OREGON 46,071,000 5,771
PENNSYLVANIA 181,844,000 29,650
PUERTO RICO 185,563,000 34,393
RHODE ISLAND 17,378,000 2,952
SOUTH CAROLINA 64,060,000 11,604
SOUTH DAKOTA 14,045,000 2,587
TENNESSEE 92,040,000 15,747
TEXAS 361,846,000 63,171
UTAH 27,840,000 5,079
VERMONT 10,514,000 1,438
VIRGINIA 74,487,000 12,652
WASHINGTON 78,359,000 10,287
WEST VIRGINIA 39,842,000 7,144
WISCONSIN 72,177,000 12,953
WYOMING 8,187,000 1,468
VIRGIN ISLANDS 7,697,000 1,430
OUTER PACIFIC 12,356,000 5,989
AMERICAN INDIAN 144,768,000 22,391
MIGRANT PROGRAMS 206,391,000 31,607
GRAND TOTAL 5,102,907,000 857,664

HEAD START ENROLLMENT HISTORY

FISCAL YEAR ENROLLMENT APPROPRIATION


1965 (Summer only) 561,000 $ 96,400,000

1966 733,000 198,900,000

1967 681,400 349,200,000

1968 693,900 316,200,000

1969 663,600 333,900,000

1970 477,400 325,700,000

1971 397,500 360,000,000

1972 379,000 376,300,000

1973 379,000 400,700,000

1974 352,800 403,900,000

1975 349,000 403,900,000

1976 349,000 441,000,000

1977 333,000 475,000,000

1978 391,400 625,000,000

1979 387,500 680,000,000

1980 376,300 735,000,000

1981 387,300 818,700,000

1982 395,800 911,700,000

1983 414,950 912,000,000

1984 442,140 995,750,000

1985 452,080 1,075,059,000

1986 451,732 1,040,315,000

1987 446,523 1,130,542,000

1988 448,464 1,206,324,000

1989 450,970 1,235,000,000

1990 540,930 1,552,000,000

1991 583,471 1,951,800,000

1992 621,078 2,201,800,000

1993 713,903 2,776,286,000

1994 740,493 3,325,728,000

1995 750,696 3,534,128,000

1996 752,077 3,569,329,000

1997 793,809 3,980,546,000

1998 822,316 4,347,433,000

1999 826,016 4,658,151,448

2000 857,664 5,267,000,000




The program has served a total of 19,397,000 children since it began in 1965.