Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies — CFDA 84.010

What $72.08 billion on 274 awards means

Assistance listing 84.010 is titled TITLE I GRANTS TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $72,084,347,492.44. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not an outlay. Treating $72,084,347,492.44 as cash already spent in classrooms mixes two series. SpendingVault keeps the label as obligations.

274 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $72,084,347,492.44 by 274 produces a mean near $263 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical school allocation and not a per-pupil Title I amount. Formula dollars often sit on state-level assistance actions that later reach LEAs, which is why 274 records can carry $72,084,347,492.44.

The 111 recipients in the extract are organizational recipients stored on those award rows, not a count of students. 52 states appear in the place-of-performance coding. None of those volume stats converts the dollar total into a school census.

111 recipients across 52 states

CFDA 84.010 lists 111 recipients and 52 states against 274 awards. Recipient count is not unique pupils. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores for this listing. A state education agency can appear on multiple awards; 111 is not a headcount of local educational agencies nationwide. The 52-state span is a coded-jurisdiction count, not a map of every Title I school.

Because 274 awards are few relative to the dollar total, a handful of large state actions can move $72,084,347,492.44 without a matching jump in the 111-recipient count. Extra modifications can lift award volume while dollars barely move. The Title I hub keeps dollars, awards, recipients, and states visible so one statistic is not inferred from another.

Obligations versus education outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $72,084,347,492.44 figure for CFDA 84.010 can include commitments that will disburse later. Department of Education Title I allocation tables and a single fiscal year’s ESEA appropriation are different publications. This page does not translate the obligation total into those series.

If a number you expected is missing, the usual cause is a different reporting concept. Start from the obligation definition, then open the 84.010 program page. Do not stretch 274 awards or 111 recipients to cover every K–12 dollar that touches a district.

What the 84.010 tables omit

The Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a school-level allocation file, not a poverty census, and not an assessment-results table. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $72,084,347,492.44. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 274 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 52 states is a coding field. A statewide grantee coded to one cell can dominate geography while LEAs sit in many counties. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 84.010

A complete citation is $72,084,347,492.44 in obligations for CFDA 84.010, covering 274 awards, 111 recipients, and 52 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is concentration rather than dollars, lead with 274 awards and 111 recipients, then the dollar total.

Start with the Title I LEA Grants program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total. Nothing here is a school-improvement ranking.

A worked reading of the 84.010 extract

Start from the four packet facts: $72,084,347,492.44, 274 awards, 111 recipients, and 52 states under CFDA 84.010. The mean near $263 million is a quotient from a small award count, not a per-pupil allocation. If a later USAspending.gov file adds a few large state actions, dollars can jump while 111 recipients barely move. If modifications proliferate, 274 can rise while the dollar book stays close to $72,084,347,492.44.

Nothing in the extract splits Title I Part A basic grants from concentration or targeted formulas, or schoolwide from targeted-assistance schools. Those cuts live in Department of Education publications. Treat CFDA 84.010 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the Title I LEA Grants program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 274 awards and 111 recipients next to the dollars.

Questions

How much is obligated under Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $72,084,347,492.44 in obligations for CFDA 84.010. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a count of Title I schools. The same extract lists 274 awards, 111 recipients, and 52 states.

Why does CFDA 84.010 have only 274 awards?

The indexed award count is 274. Title I formula dollars often sit on a relatively small number of large state-agency assistance actions, which is why $72,084,347,492.44 can coexist with a modest record count. The 274 figure is a file statistic, not a count of districts or students. 111 organizational recipients are stored on those rows.

Does the Title I total include money already spent in schools?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $72,084,347,492.44 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. The 274-award count is a record tally, not a count of school-level drawdowns. Cite CFDA 84.010 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series.

How many states appear on CFDA 84.010?

The extract codes 52 states for Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every school. Those rows still sit under the $72,084,347,492.44 obligation total and the 111-recipient count.