 
Head Start Program Fact Sheet
Fiscal Year 2005
FY 2004 Actual |
FY 2005 Appropriation |
|
|---|---|---|
| Local Head Start Projects | ||
| Projects in States and Territories | $6,090,967,000 |
$6,153,287,000 |
| American Indian and Migrant Programs | $451,325,000 |
$456,003,000 |
| Subtotal | $6,542,292,000 |
$6,609,290,000 |
| Support Activities | ||
| Training and Technical Assistance | $172,371,000 |
$174,078,000 |
| Research, Demonstration and Evaluation | $20,000,000 |
$20,000,000 |
| Monitoring/Program Review | $39,246,000 |
$39,746,000 |
| Subtotal | $231,617,000 |
$233,824,000 |
| TOTAL | $6,773,909,000 |
$6,843,114,000 |
ADMINISTRATION ON CHILDREN, YOUTH AND FAMILIES
Head Start Bureau
330 C Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20447
March, 2005
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-2004 Program Statistics
ENROLLMENT |
905,851 |
| Ages: | |
| Number of 5 year olds and older | 5% |
| Number of 4 year olds | 52% |
| Number of 3 year olds | 34% |
| Number under 3 years of age | 9% |
| Racial/Ethnic Composition | |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 3.1% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 31.2% |
| Black/African American | 31.1% |
| White | 26.9% |
| Asian | 1.8% |
| Hawaiian/Pacific Islander | 0.9% |
| Multi-Racial/Other | 5.0% |
| NUMBER OF GRANTEES | 1,604 |
| Number of Classrooms | 48,260 |
| Number of Centers | 20,050 |
| AVERAGE COST PER CHILD | $7,222 |
| PAID STAFF | 211,950 |
| VOLUNTEERS | 1,353,000 |
During the 2003-2004 Head Start Program Year:
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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).
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More than 50,000 children participated in home-based Head Start program services.
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27 percent of Head Start program staff members were parents of current or former Head Start children. Over 880,000 parents volunteered in their local Head Start program.
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91 percent of Head Start children had health insurance. 83 percent of those with health insurance were enrolled in the Medicaid/Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) program or a state sponsored child health insurance program.
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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 2004, nearly $677 million was used to support more than 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 nearly 62,000 children under the age of three.
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More than 179,000 Head Start fathers participated in organized regularly scheduled activities designed to involve them in Head Start and Early Head Start programs.
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115 Head Start and Early Head Start Programs were sponsored by faith-based organizations.
FY 2005 Head Start Program State Allocations and Enrollment
STATE |
2004 Funding |
Enrollment |
|---|---|---|
ALABAMA |
$105,500,307 |
16,374 |
ALASKA |
$12,352,697 |
1,634 |
ARIZONA |
$102,022,603 |
13,215 |
ARKANSAS |
$63,808,419 |
10,879 |
CALIFORNIA |
$823,694,368 |
98,933 |
COLORADO |
$67,676,158 |
9,820 |
CONNECTICUT |
$51,400,659 |
7,148 |
DELAWARE |
$12,770,909 |
2,197 |
District of Columbia |
$24,864,991 |
3,403 |
FLORIDA |
$260,307,421 |
35,574 |
GEORGIA |
$166,837,016 |
23,450 |
HAWAII |
$22,664,976 |
3,063 |
IDAHO |
$22,410,937 |
2,957 |
ILLINOIS |
$267,111,453 |
39,672 |
INDIANA |
$95,093,413 |
14,234 |
IOWA |
$51,049,850 |
7,775 |
KANSAS |
$50,433,097 |
7,949 |
KENTUCKY |
$106,799,358 |
16,071 |
LOUISIANA |
$144,497,478 |
21,982 |
MAINE |
$27,343,732 |
3,979 |
MARYLAND |
$77,277,126 |
10,344 |
MASSACHUSETTS |
$107,298,837 |
13,011 |
MICHIGAN |
$232,214,668 |
35,124 |
MINNESOTA |
$71,119,492 |
10,339 |
MISSISSIPPI |
$160,120,548 |
26,754 |
MISSOURI |
$117,837,078 |
17,473 |
MONTANA |
$20,746,775 |
2,945 |
NEBRASKA |
$35,709,352 |
5,080 |
NEVADA |
$23,698,194 |
2,754 |
NEW HAMPSHIRE |
$13,257,126 |
1,632 |
NEW JERSEY |
$127,761,210 |
15,130 |
NEW MEXICO |
$51,789,732 |
7,451 |
NEW YORK |
$430,086,285 |
49,300 |
NORTH CAROLINA |
$139,359,686 |
19,098 |
NORTH DAKOTA |
$17,009,140 |
2,353 |
OHIO |
$244,101,839 |
38,029 |
OKLAHOMA |
$80,249,056 |
13,474 |
OREGON |
$58,892,507 |
8,716 |
PENNSYLVANIA |
$226,002,253 |
30,868 |
RHODE ISLAND |
$21,802,422 |
3,150 |
SOUTH CAROLINA |
$81,718,067 |
12,248 |
SOUTH DAKOTA |
$18,643,605 |
2,827 |
TENNESSEE |
$118,216,822 |
16,437 |
TEXAS |
$474,091,773 |
67,785 |
UTAH |
$37,398,515 |
5,518 |
VERMONT |
$13,428,786 |
1,569 |
VIRGINIA |
$98,142,388 |
13,768 |
WASHINGTON |
$100,192,902 |
11,118 |
WEST VIRGINIA |
$50,152,151 |
7,650 |
WISCONSIN |
$89,783,879 |
13,532 |
WYOMING |
$12,252,314 |
1,793 |
INDIAN TRIBES |
$186,704,429 |
23,737 |
MIGRANT PROGRAMS |
$264,620,660 |
33,154 |
OUTER PACIFIC |
$7,261,843 |
3,060 |
PUERTO RICO |
$246,791,885 |
37,498 |
VIRGIN ISLANDS |
$7,919,222 |
942 |
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 |
| 2003 | 909,608 |
6,667,533,000 |
| 2004 | *905,851 |
6,774,848,000 |
*Head Start has discontinued funding to four Outer Pacific grantees which, through the Compact of Free Association, have became independent nations and are no longer funded by the Administration for Children and Families. These four programs served approximately 3,200 children.