 
Head Start Program Fact Sheet
Fiscal Year 2003
FY 2002 Actual |
FY 2003 Appropriation |
|
|---|---|---|
| Local Head Start Projects | ||
| Projects in States and Territories | $5,886,706,000 |
$6,005,162,000 |
| American Indian and Migrant Programs | $439,609,000 |
$448,454,000 |
| Subtotal | $6,326,314,750 |
$6,453,616,000 |
| Support Activities | ||
| Training and Technical Assistance | $166,414,250 |
$169,688,000 |
| Research, Demonstration and Evaluation | $20,000,000 |
$20,000,000 |
| Monitoring/Program Review | $23,841,000 |
$24,229,000 |
| Subtotal | $210,255,250 |
$213,917,000 |
| TOTAL | $6,536,570,000 |
$6,667,533,000 |
ADMINISTRATION ON CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES
Head Start Bureau
330 C Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20447
February, 2003
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-2002 Program Statistics
ENROLLMENT |
912,345 |
| Ages: | |
| Number of 5 year olds and older | 5% |
| Number of 4 year olds | 52% |
| Number of 3 year olds | 36% |
| Number under 3 years of age | 7% |
| Racial/Ethnic Composition | |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 2.9% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 29.8% |
| Black/African American | 32.6% |
| White | 28.4% |
| Asian | 2.0% |
| Hawaiian/Pacific Islander | 1.0% |
| NUMBER OF GRANTEES | 1,570 |
| Number of Classrooms | 49,800 |
| Number of Centers | 18,865 |
| AVERAGE COST PER CHILD | $6,934 |
| PAID STAFF | 198,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS | 1,450,000 |
During the 2001-2002 Head Start Program Year:
- 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).
- More than 47,000 children participated in home-based Head Start
program services.
- 29 percent of Head Start program staff members were parents
of current or former Head Start children. Over 867,000 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.
Of those children with health insurance, 63 percent 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 2002, $653.7 million was used to
support nearly 650 programs 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 programs served
more than 62,000 children under the age of three.
- More than 133,000 Head Start fathers participated in organized
regularly scheduled activities designed to involve them in Head
Start and Early Head Start programs.
- 115 Head Start programs were sponsored by faith-based organizations.
FY 2002 Head Start Program State Allocations and Enrollment
STATE |
2003 Funding |
Enrollment |
|---|---|---|
ALABAMA |
$100,154,494 |
16,529 |
ALASKA |
$12,104,386 |
1,839 |
ARIZONA |
$96,912,656 |
13,297 |
ARKANSAS |
$61,023,626 |
10,930 |
CALIFORNIA |
$801,429,541 |
98,687 |
COLORADO |
$65,716,131 |
9,872 |
CONNECTICUT |
$49,984,520 |
7,224 |
DELAWARE |
$12,286,428 |
2,231 |
District
of Columbia |
$24,090,814 |
3,403 |
FLORIDA |
$252,369,803 |
35,610 |
GEORGIA |
$161,740,120 |
23,414 |
HAWAII
|
$21,977,038 |
3,073 |
IDAHO |
$21,662,707 |
3,347 |
ILLINOIS
|
$259,780,216 |
39,619 |
INDIANA
|
$88,666,972 |
14,145 |
IOWA |
$49,494,840 |
7,620 |
KANSAS
|
$47,909,093 |
8,013 |
KENTUCKY
|
$103,472,617 |
16,190 |
LOUISIANA
|
$135,048,223 |
22,136 |
MAINE |
$26,661,319 |
4,002 |
MARYLAND
|
$74,928,894 |
10,527 |
MASSACHUSETTS
|
$104,182,066 |
13,040 |
MICHIGAN
|
$225,290,497 |
35,269 |
MINNESOTA
|
$69,643,329 |
10,331 |
MISSISSIPPI
|
$155,259,338 |
26,742 |
MISSOURI
|
$113,255,841 |
17,646 |
MONTANA
|
$20,117,436 |
2,982 |
NEBRASKA
|
$34,580,417 |
5,252 |
NEVADA
|
$19,785,629 |
2,754 |
NEW HAMPSHIRE
|
$12,860,678 |
1,632 |
NEW JERSEY
|
$125,175,590 |
15,262 |
NEW MEXICO
|
$49,185,413 |
7,749 |
NEW YORK
|
$418,238,532 |
49,493 |
NORTH CAROLINA
|
$132,667,143 |
19,202 |
NORTH DAKOTA
|
$16,036,018 |
2,307 |
OHIO |
$236,999,439 |
38,081 |
OKLAHOMA
|
$76,909,804 |
13,460 |
OREGON
|
$57,105,005 |
9,199 |
PENNSYLVANIA |
$219,114,506 |
30,986 |
RHODE ISLAND
|
$21,184,290 |
3,150 |
SOUTH CAROLINA
|
$78,506,579 |
12,248 |
SOUTH DAKOTA
|
$18,078,512 |
2,827 |
TENNESSEE
|
$112,343,511 |
16,507 |
TEXAS |
$454,292,444 |
67,664 |
UTAH |
$36,270,290 |
5,527 |
VERMONT
|
$13,022,989 |
1,573 |
VIRGINIA
|
$95,366,343 |
13,772 |
WASHINGTON
|
$97,246,982 |
11,167 |
WEST VIRGINIA
|
$48,624,566 |
7,650 |
WISCONSIN
|
$86,940,813 |
13,489 |
WYOMING |
$11,882,457 |
1,803 |
AMERICAN
INDIAN |
$181,794,159 |
23,837 |
MIGRANT
PROGRAMS |
$257,814,769 |
33,850 |
OUTER PACIFIC
|
$14,942,945 |
6,209 |
PUERTO
RICO |
$234,303,518 |
36,920 |
VIRGIN
ISLANDS |
$9,878,464 |
1,161 |
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 |
| 2001 | 905,235 |
6,200,000,000 |
| 2002 | 912,345 |
6,536,570,000 |