Head Start in Ohio

Head Start catalog × Ohio

CFDA 93.600 is titled HEAD START. Filtered to Ohio place of performance, obligations sum to $2,897,823,540.48 on 181 awards. The national Head Start hub includes every state. The Ohio spending hub includes every program. This tie is the intersection.

One hundred eighty-one awards is a many-grantee pattern: Head Start often funds local agencies rather than a single statewide block. The join does not name those agencies, split Cleveland from Appalachian counties, or count funded slots. Packet facts are $2,897,823,540.48, 181 awards, OH, and 93.600.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $2,897,823,540.48 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 93.600 and OH. The overlay table at the program-in-state path is the same cell rendered as a page; this narrative is the join explained in prose. Nothing here ranks Ohio against other states on need, performance, or politics.

One hundred eighty-one awards totaling $2,897,823,540.48 is a local-grantee pattern. The about $16.01 million mean is closer to an agency grant than to a statewide block. Classroom counts and CLASS scores are not in the packet. CCDBG remains a separate CFDA.

93.600 is not the Child Care Block Grant

Head Start and the Child Care and Development Block Grant are different CFDA numbers. Mixing CCDBG dollars into $2,897,823,540.48 would overstate this cell. Early Head Start expansions, if cataloged separately, would also sit elsewhere.

Facts on this page: Ohio, CFDA 93.600, $2,897,823,540.48, 181 awards. Enrollment, CLASS scores, and facility addresses are not in the facts. The catalog title names Head Start, not a school-readiness ranking.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $2,897,823,540.48, 181 awards, CFDA 93.600, program title Head Start, and geography OH/Ohio. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 181 awards into $2,897,823,540.48 is about $16.01 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

Head Start grantees are local. The state tag is still OH. $2,897,823,540.48 on 181 awards does not become a classroom census. CCDBG and TANF stay on their own Ohio ties.

Questions

How much Head Start funding is obligated in Ohio?

USAspending records $2,897,823,540.48 in CFDA 93.600 obligations with Ohio place of performance across 181 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not an outlay and not the Child Care Block Grant.

Does 181 awards mean 181 Head Start centers?

No. The facts report 181 awards totaling $2,897,823,540.48. A grantee can operate multiple sites. Site counts are not in the packet facts.

Is this the same as Ohio’s child-care block grant?

No. CCDBG uses a different CFDA number. This page is 93.600 only.

What is the average award size?

About $16.0 million ($2,897,823,540.48 ÷ 181). That mean is not a per-child cost and not a median.