Every Student Succeeds Act Preschool Development Grants — CFDA 93.434

Preschool-development obligations at $1.90 billion

USAspending.gov records $1,898,379,275.32 in obligations under CFDA 93.434. One hundred three awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $18.43 million per award — large for a classroom grant and consistent with multi-year state planning awards rather than site-level contracts. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical preschool budget or a per-child amount.

The assistance-listing title is EVERY STUDENT SUCCEEDS ACT/PRESCHOOL DEVELOPMENT GRANTS. CFDA 93.434 is the identifier. Other HHS or Education preschool listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $1.90 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined early-childhood total this packet does not contain.

61 recipients across 51 states

Sixty-one recipients share 103 awards, or about 1.7 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $1.90 billion evenly would assign about $31.12 million per recipient. That pattern is close to one or two awards per named organization, which fits a state-agency grant with a small roster rather than a competitive flood of local nonprofits. The packet does not list the 61. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of preschool sites.

Fifty-one states in the geographic count is a near-complete map, including at least one extra jurisdiction beyond the 50 states. Preschool-development dollars in this extract follow that coded geography. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

A 51-state geographic count against 61 recipients is the preschool-development tell: almost every coded jurisdiction has a named organization, with a handful of extra rows for territories or repeat agencies. That is the opposite of a competitive flood of local providers. Readers looking for classroom-level spending will not find it in the $1,898,379,275.32 stock. The 103 awards are the assistance rows, and the 61 recipients are the organizations those rows name. If a later extract adds more recipients, that would be a new packet, not an inference from this one.

Award count is not a classroom count

Among HHS assistance listings, 93.434 is a thin file: 103 rows against 61 recipients. Planning-year rows and amendments can inflate award count relative to unique agencies. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of preschool programs.” Recipients (61) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (103) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report enrollment, classroom seats, or staff FTEs. Citing 103 as preschools would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus payment outlays

The $1.90 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against preschool-development awards — are not in the packet. A state agency can show a large obligation stock while a draw follows a later calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 93.434 to size this Every Student Succeeds Act/Preschool Development Grants listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a Head Start, child-care subsidy, or K–12 formula dashboard. Those series live on other CFDA codes. This page reports the obligation book tagged 93.434.

What the 93.434 tables omit

The Preschool Development hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a quality-rating file, not an enrollment census, and not a teacher-wage survey. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $1,898,379,275.32. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 103 award rows.

Place-of-performance on 51 states is a coding field. Read the program page before treating those cells as equal shares. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already spent on classrooms.

Where the 93.434 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 93.434 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other HHS listings. For 93.434 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 93.434’s 103 awards spread $1,898,379,275.32 across 61 recipients and 51 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 1.7 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards.

Questions

How much is obligated for ESSA preschool development grants?

USAspending.gov records $1,898,379,275.32 in obligations for CFDA 93.434. SpendingVault indexes 103 awards, 61 recipients, and 51 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a preschool enrollment count. CFDA 93.434’s $1.90 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 93.434 carry?

The listing shows 103 awards against 61 recipients, or about 1.7 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $18.43 million per award. Award count is not a classroom or child count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

How many organizations receive 93.434 awards?

The extract lists 61 recipients. Those are organizational recipients on assistance awards tagged 93.434. Geographic coding covers 51 states. The packet does not name the 61 or publish enrollment data. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. USAspending.gov indexes those rows as assistance obligations, not outlays.

Is $1.90 billion already paid to states for preschool?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 93.434’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or classroom seats. The $1.90 billion on 103 awards is the obligation figure.