Head Start in North Carolina

Grantee-scale tape, statewide Head Start cell

This tie keeps USAspending assistance where CFDA 93.600 meets North Carolina place of performance. The dollar book is $2,034,252,547.61. The award count is 181. Unlike Title I formula files that often post as a handful of SEA awards, Head Start commonly posts as many prime grants to community action agencies, school districts, and nonprofits. One hundred eighty-one records still do not equal 181 centers; modifications and continuation actions can share the tape.

The join does not prove that North Carolina’s child-poverty rate or licensed-slot inventory caused $2,034,252,547.61. Those are other series. This packet does not split Early Head Start from Head Start, and it does not list grantees. Correlation is not causation.

A reader who treats the cell as North Carolina’s full HHS obligation book has left the CFDA-by-state definition. The 181 figure is a record count, not a count of children served or classrooms licensed.

One hundred eighty-one awards and a blended mean

One hundred eighty-one awards under $2,034,252,547.61 imply a mean near $11,239,518 per award. Large urban grantees can sit well above that average; smaller rural grants can sit below it. The packet has no median and no share on the largest ten awards.

Compared with the four-award Title I cell in the same state, 181 rows is a thicker tape for a similar dollar magnitude. That contrast is a filing pattern, not a judgment about which program is larger in classrooms. Cite both columns. USAspending.gov is the source; SpendingVault does not recast the mean as a typical center budget.

Questions

How much Head Start spending is in North Carolina?

USAspending.gov shows $2,034,252,547.61 in CFDA 93.600 obligations coded to North Carolina across 181 awards. The join uses the program number and North Carolina place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does 181 awards mean 181 Head Start centers?

No. The extract counts 181 award records tagged to CFDA 93.600 and North Carolina. Continuations and modifications can appear as separate records. The implied mean is about $11,239,518 per award from the two packet facts.

Is $2.03 billion North Carolina’s full federal spending?

No. $2,034,252,547.61 is only the Head Start cell. Other CFDA programs with North Carolina place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 93.600 is not limited to North Carolina.

Do these obligations equal cash paid to grantees?

No. $2,034,252,547.61 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Program-year drawdowns can lag the obligation.