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Head Start
1998 Fact Sheet
HEAD START BUDGET
Fiscal Year 1997
Fiscal Year 1998
(Actual)
Appropriation
(Estimate)
Local Head Start Projects
Projects in States and Territories
$3,608,971,900
$3,950,181,700
Native American and Migrant
Programs $ 267,708,100
$ 293,018,300
Subtotal
$3,876,680,000
$4,243,200,000
Support Activities
Training and Technical Assistance/Special
Projects for Children with Disabilities
$ 82,620,000
$ 90,100,000
Research, Demonstration and Evaluation
$ 11,546,000
$ 12,000,000
Monitoring/Program Review
$ 9,700,000
$ 9,700,000
Subtotal
$ 103,866,000
$ 111,800,000
Total
$3,980,546,000
$4,355,000,000
Head Start Bureau P.O. Box 1182
Washington, D.C. 20013 February 1998
ENROLLMENT .............................................793,809
Ages
Number of 5 year-olds and
older........................... 6%
Number of 4 year-olds.....................................60%
Number of 3 year-olds.....................................30%
Number under 3 years of
age............................... 4%
Racial/Ethnic Composition
American Indian..........................................
3.5% Hispanic................................................ 26.1%
Black................................................... 36.1% White...................................................
31.2% Asian.................................................... 3.1%
NUMBER OF GRANTEES .......................................1,456
AVERAGE COST PER CHILD ..................................$4,882
STAFF
Paid Staff:............................................155,300
Volunteers:..........................................1,315,000
HEAD START ENROLLMENT &
APPROPRIATION HISTORY
CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATION
FISCAL YEAR
ENROLLMENT APPROPRIATION
1966
733,000
$198,900,000
1967
681,400
$349,200,000
1965 (Summer only)
561,000
$ 96,400,000
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
A total of 16,892,000 children
have been served by the program since it began in 1965.
OTHER FACTS
The program is administered by
Head Start Bureau, the Administration on Children, Youth and Families
(ACYF), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Department of
Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Grants are awarded by the DHHS
Regional Offices and the Head Start Bureau’s American Indian and
Migrant Programs Branches directly to local public agencies, private
non-profit organizations and school systems for the purpose of operating
Head Start programs at the community level.
During the 1996-1997 operating
period, Head Start programs report that:
13 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).
90 percent of the Head Start teachers
had degrees in early childhood education or had obtained the Child Development
Associate (CDA) credential or a state certificate to teach in a pre-school
classroom.
571 programs operated a home based
program. Home based services were provided to 39,833 children by 4,562
home visitors.
30 percent of the staff were parents
of current or former Head Start children. Over 808,147 parents volunteered
in their local Head Start program.
61 percent of Head Start families
have incomes of less than $9,000 per year and 77.7 percent have yearly
incomes of less than $12,000.
Head Start programs are encouraged
to use non-Head Start resources in their communities for Head Start
children and their families. Recent data show that 67.8 percent of the
Head Start children are enrolled in the Medicaid/Early and Periodic
Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) program which pays for their
medical and dental services.
About half of all programs provide
some full day services to families who need child care services.
39 percent of families need child
care for children enrolled in Head Start. Of those, 25 percent received
child care through the Head Start program or its parent agency.
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 1997, $159,000,000
was used to support 173 projects to provide, Early Head Start child
development and family support services in all 50 states and in the
District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. These projects, plus a number
of Parent and Child Centers and Comprehensive Child Development Program’s
serve 22,000 children under age three. In Fiscal Year 1998, funding
of $279,250,000 will be used to support Early Head Start programs.
FISCAL YEAR 1997 STATE ALLOCATIONS
STATE
DOLLARS ENROLLMENT
ALABAMA
65,970,000 14,979
ALASKA
7,581,000 1,212
ARIZONA
53,478,000 10,561
ARKANSAS
36,396,000 9,637
CALIFORNIA 458,841,000
79,929
COLORADO
40,902,000 8,952
CONNECTICUT
32,985,000 6,190
DELAWARE
8,314,000 2,077
DC
17,361,000 3,273
FLORIDA
144,663,000 29,523
GEORGIA
96,295,000 20,505
HAWAII
12,632,000 2,539
IDAHO
12,529,000 2,213
ILLINOIS
170,193,000 33,924
INDIANA
55,293,000 12,415
IOWA
28,458,000 6,341
KANSAS
28,815,000 6,355
KENTUCKY
65,587,000 14,828
LOUISIANA
87,261,000 19,998
MAINE
15,536,000 3,392
MARYLAND
47,688,000 9,514
MASSACHUSETTS 68,913,000
11,499
MICHIGAN
150,074,000 32,440
MINNESOTA
43,536,000 9,117
MISSISSIPPI 103,523,000
24,693
MISSOURI
66,763,000 14,899
MONTANA
11,500,000 2,510
NEBRASKA
19,037,000 4,088
NEVADA
9,942,000 2,019
NEW HAMPSHIRE 7,430,000
1,267
NEW JERSEY
82,650,000 13,746
NEW MEXICO
33,971,000 7,187
NEW YORK
261,514,000 43,716
NORTH CAROLINA 80,559,000
16,825
NORTH DAKOTA
8,733,000 2,121
OHIO
155,354,000 35,441
OKLAHOMA
45,865,000 11,631
OREGON
34,466,000 5,222
PENNSYLVANIA 142,973,000
27,515
PUERTO RICO 143,121,000
32,221
RHODE ISLAND 13,135,000
2,676
SOUTH CAROLINA 51,714,000
10,822
SOUTH DAKOTA 10,139,000
2,374
TENNESSEE
69,365,000 14,553
TEXAS
253,186,000 54,624
UTAH
20,132,000 4,419
VERMONT
8,433,000 1,379
VIRGINIA
54,571,000 11,480
WASHINGTON
59,644,000 9,387
WEST VIRGINIA 31,064,000
6,858
WISCONSIN
58,550,000 12,556
WYOMING
5,814,000 1,395
VIRGIN ISLANDS 6,560,000
1,446
OUTER PACIFIC 9,963,000
5,849
AMERICAN INDIAN
113,920,000 21,019
MIGRANT PROGRAMS
153,788,000 36,458
GRAND TOTAL
3,876,680,000 793,809
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