Office of Head Start - Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) Grants (2024-2025) - Services Snapshot

Oct 15, 2026

Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) Head Start Services Snapshot summarizes key PIR subset data for preschool-age children served under MSHS programs in 2024-2025. It reports funded enrollment by program option and center-based details by annual-hours availability, plus total cumulative enrollment reflecting turnover. The snapshot further covers participant age distribution, homelessness and foster care supports, prior enrollment duration, ethnicity and race distribution, and family primary language at home. It also summarizes core health service coverage at beginning vs end of the enrollment year and disability and family service metrics.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages4

Reading Time10 min

AccessFree to download

Funded enrollment

Funded enrollment by program option

Detail - Center-based funded enrollment

Total cumulative enrollment

Participants by age

Homelessness services

Foster care

Prior enrollment

Ethnicity and race

Primary language of family at home

Health services

Health services at beginning vs end of enrollment year

Disabilities services

Family services

Total number of families

Families who received at least one family service

Office of Head Start Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) Grants (2024-2025) This MSHS Head Start Services Snapshot summarizes key data on demographics and services for preschool-age children served by Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs. The data in this Snapshot is a subset of the annual Program Information Report (PIR) submission to the Office of Head Start. Funded enrollment Number of enrollment slots the program is funded to serve. | | \# of funded enrollment slots | % of funded enrollment slots | | --- | --- | --- | | Total Funded Enrollment | 9,054 | 100% | Funded enrollment by program option | | \# of funded enrollment slots | % of funded enrollment slots | | --- | --- | --- | | Center-based option | 8,395 | 92.7% | | Home-based option | 0 | 0% | | Family child care option | 659 | 7.3% | | Locally designed option | 0 | 0% | | Total funded pregnant women | | | Detail-Center-based funded enrollment | | \# of center-based funded enrollment slots | % of center-based funded enrollment slots | | --- | --- | --- | | Number of slots equal to or greater than 1,020 annual hours for Head Start preschool children or 1,380 annual hours for Early Head Start infants and toddlers | 6,627 | 78.9% | | Of these, the number that are available for the full-working-day and full-calendar-year | 717 | | | Number of slots with fewer than 1,020 annual hours for Head Start preschool children or 1,380 annual hours for Early Head Start infantsand toddlers | 1,768 | 21.1% | | Of these, the number that are available for 3.5 hours per day for 128 days | 928 | | | Of these, the number that are available for a full working day | 840 | | Total cumulative enrollment Actual number of children and pregnant women served by the program throughout the entire program year, inclusive of enrollees who left during the program year and the enrollees who filled those empty places. Due to turnover, more children and families may receive Head Start services cumulatively throughout the program year (all of whom are reported in the PIR) than indicated by the funded enrollment numbers. | | \# of participants | % of participants | | --- | --- | --- | | Total cumulative enrollment | 8,481 | 100% | MIGRANT HEAD START (2024-2025) Page 1 Participants by age | | \# of participants | % of participants | | --- | --- | --- | | 2 years old | 1,935 | 22.8% | | 3 years old | 1,839 | 21.7% | | 4 years old | 1,426 | 16.8% | | 5 years and older | 799 | 9.4% | Homelessness services | | \# of children | % of children | | --- | --- | --- | | Total number of children experiencing homelessness that were served during the enrollment year | 871 | 10.3% | Foster care | | \# of children | % of children | | --- | --- | --- | | Total number of enrolled children who were in foster care at any point during the program year | 29 | 0.3% | Prior enrollment Children who were enrolled previously in Early Head Start, Head Start, or some combination for at least half of the time that classes or home visits were in session. | | \# of children | % of children | | --- | --- | --- | | The second year | 2,452 | 28.9% | | Three or more years | 2,419 | 28.5% | Ethnicity and race | | \# of Hispanic or
Latino
Origin participants | % of Hispanic or
Latino
Origin participants | \# of NonHispanic or Non-Latino Origin
participants | % of NonHispanic or Non-Latino Origin
participants | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | American Indian or Alaska Native | 420 | 5.0% | 6 | 0.07% | | Asian | 0 | 0% | 8 | 0.09% | | Black or African American | 24 | 0.3% | 130 | 1.5% | | Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 | 0% | 1 | 0.01% | | White | 3,781 | 44.6% | 109 | 1.3% | | Bi-racial/Multi-racial | 156 | 1.8% | 13 | 0.2% | | Other | 3,560 | 42.0% | 205 | 2.4% | | | \# of children / pregnant women | % of children / pregnant
women | | --- | --- | --- | | Unspecified ethnicity or race | 68 | 0.8% | Primary language of family at home |

FAQs

What does the MSHS Head Start Services Snapshot cover for 2024-2025?

It summarizes key PIR-subset data on demographics and services for preschool-age children served by Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs, including enrollment, participant characteristics, and service coverage metrics.

How is funded enrollment reported in the snapshot?

Funded enrollment is shown as the number of funded enrollment slots and percentages of those slots, broken down by program option (center-based, home-based, family child care, locally designed) and by center-based annual-hours availability categories.

What health and family service indicators are included?

Health services include measures such as insurance coverage, accessible health care, up-to-date immunizations (or exemptions), and accessible dental care, comparing beginning vs end of the enrollment year. Family services include total number of families and the count and share receiving at least one family service.

Oct 15, 2026

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