Head Start 1998 Fact Sheet

Head Start Bureau
P.O. Box 1182
Washington, D.C. 20013

Head Start Budget

	Fiscal Year 1997 (Actual)	Fiscal Year 1998 (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

Statistics

Total Enrollment in Head Start	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%
Asian	3.1%
Black	36.1%
Hispanic	26.1%
White	32.2%
Number of grantees	1,456
Average cost per child	$4,882
Staff
Paid Staff	155,300
Volunteers	1,315,000

Head Start Enrollment and Appropriate 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

From the Head Start Bureau web site. Updated February 1998.