Educational support services (NAICS 611710) federal contract obligations

What $2.51 billion on 611710 records

The $2,508,279,358.90 total is the sum of contract obligations whose reported NAICS is 611710. Three thousand six hundred eighty awards produced that sum, implying about $681,600 per award. That mid-range average can mix large testing or technical-assistance vehicles with smaller support orders. The packet does not separate them.

Colleges, elementary schools, and professional-training schools have their own NAICS lines when the award is tagged as operating an educational institution. 611710 is the support-services residual around those institutions. The table follows the code on the award, not a reader’s view of whether the work “feels like” teaching.

Contracts versus student aid

Pell Grants, Title I, and most formula education assistance appear as assistance awards and often lack NAICS. They are outside $2,508,279,358.90. A Department of Education contract for assessment support tagged 611710 is inside. Keep those instruments apart in any citation.

Obligations are commitments. A multi-year technical-assistance contract can be obligated up front or by option year while invoices arrive later. This page does not publish a paid-invoice total.

What 3,680 does not count

The 3,680 awards include modifications that keep 611710. They are not 3,680 school districts and not 3,680 students served. One IDIQ can generate many of those rows. Negative modifications reduce the obligation net without erasing prior actions.

Neighboring education codes

Colleges and universities, flight training, and professional development schools sit on other 611xxx lines when tagged that way. Their dollars are not inside this support-services rollup. Compare them on the all-industries index and cite each code separately if you add.

Using the educational-support hub

The Educational Support Services industry page lists the USAspending.gov rows behind $2.51 billion. Recipients and awarding agencies belong there. This guide does not invent program names or enrollment figures.

Citing 611710 without mixing it with student-aid totals

Quote $2,508,279,358.90 as USAspending contract obligations on 3,680 awards tagged NAICS 611710. Do not add Pell, Title I, or other assistance lines to that sentence. Those programs are a different instrument. Educational support contracts are easy to confuse with “education spending” as a budget function; this table is a NAICS filter on contracts.

Readers sometimes treat support services as a proxy for school operations. Operating an institution is a different Census line when tagged that way. If a contracting office used 611710 for work that looks instructional, the dollars still sit here because the reported code is 611710.

The 3,680-award count should travel with the dollars. It is high enough to show more than a handful of vehicles and low enough that individual actions can still be large. Warehouse refreshes can move both figures. Treat the live hub as current.

Assistance without NAICS remains outside. Quote USAspending.gov, quote obligations, quote 3,680 awards, and open the industry page for recipients. Stop before converting the total into a test-score story or a recommendation about how schools should buy services.

Readers quoting this industry should keep two packet facts in one sentence: $2,508,279,359 in USAspending.gov contract obligations and 3,680 awards tagged NAICS 611710 (EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES). Dropping either figure hides whether the book is a few large vehicles or many small orders. The rounded obligation used for citation is $2,508,279,359; cents on the source total, if any, do not change the industry identity of the code.

EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES shows 3,680 award records, enough to include recurring orders without resembling a micro-purchase flood. Modifications that keep the code are inside the count. Education-support codes record tagged procurement, not student-aid disbursements. EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES is a contract filter, not an enrollment file. Record corrections in the USAspending.gov warehouse can move both the $2,508,279,359 and the 3,680-award count. Treat the live EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES industry page as current and this file as a reading of the harvested packet.

Internal comparison belongs on the all-industries index, where NAICS 611710 sits beside other six-digit contract totals. Adding neighboring codes by hand creates a new total this packet does not contain; cite each NAICS if you add. Assistance awards that omit NAICS remain outside $2,508,279,359. Outlays remain unpublished here. Quote obligations, quote 3,680 awards, cite USAspending.gov, and open the overlay hub for recipients rather than inventing agencies, fiscal years, or unit counts the packet does not list.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 611710 educational support services?

USAspending.gov shows $2,508,279,358.90 in obligations on 3,680 contract awards coded Educational Support Services. That is a procurement commitment total, not student-aid disbursements and not outlays. USAspending.gov is the source for the $2,508,279,359 obligation stock and the 3,680 contract awards tagged EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES (NAICS 611710). Assistance awards that omit NAICS are outside both figures.

Does this include Pell Grants or Title I?

No. Those are typically assistance awards that may lack NAICS. They are not in the $2,508,279,358.90. Only contracts tagged 611710 feed this industry total. Keep the citation on contract obligations: $2,508,279,359 on 3,680 awards coded NAICS 611710. Outlays, grants without NAICS, and unit counts are not in the packet that produced this page.

Is educational support the same as running a college?

No. Colleges, universities, and other schools use other NAICS lines when tagged as educational institutions. 611710 is support services as reported on the award. The $2,508,279,358.90 follows that code. The industry hub lists the underlying USAspending.gov rows. This answer restates only packet facts: NAICS 611710, $2,508,279,359 obligated, and 3,680 awards for EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES.

Do 3,680 awards mean 3,680 school districts?

No. The 3,680 figure counts contract records, including orders and modifications that keep 611710. One vehicle can serve many sites. The industry page lists the records. Do not treat 3,680 as establishments or $2,508,279,359 as cash disbursed. Both numbers describe USAspending.gov contract actions tagged NAICS 611710 (EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES), not assistance and not outlays.