State-Administered Prekindergarten Programs | Allocations and Financial Forms
Allocations lists and grant award lists are published annually. Districts and grantees refer to these lists to determine their maximum funding amounts.
The Office of Early Learning's calendar of important UPK dates and deadlines for the 2025-2026 school year lists relevant events and deadlines until the end of the project year, June 2026.
Allocations Lists for 2025-2026
New York State-Administered Prekindergarten programs will be funded by three funding sources during the 2025-2026 school year. The Office of Early Learning has provided this 2025-2026 Funding and Overview to summarize those sources.
The Office of Early Learning publishes field memos explaining allocations and grant award lists, including guidance on the following topics:
- Understanding Your 2025-2026 Prekindergarten Funding
- Half-Day Conversion Overage
- Maximum Grant Payable
Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) Allocations
Grant Award Lists for 2025-2026
Statewide Universal Full Day Prekindergarten (SUFDPK) Grant Awards (14-15)
- New York State funded grant awards for full day four-year-old students
- Awarded during the 2014-2015 school year
SUFDPK Consolidated Grant Awards (21-24)
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Awarded during the 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024 school years
Financial Forms
The New York State Education Department's Office of Grants Finance provides financial forms and guidance for managing funds. Consult Grants Finance's forms page to access the most current and relevant forms and their instructions, including the following:
- FS-10: used for submitting an initial proposed budget
- FS-10-A: used to amend a previously approved budget
- FS-10-F: used to submit final expenditures for a previously approved budget
NYSED's State Aid office provides UPK enrollment output reports. UPK districts may refer to these reports to determine if their allocation budget must be amended.
UPK Consolidation Report
The 2024-2025 enacted state budget authorized and directed the Commissioner of Education to conduct a study on the consolidation of all prekindergarten funding streams and further directed the Commissioner to provide recommendations for legislative action necessary and appropriate to streamline the funding processes and programmatic implementation (§17-a of Part A of Chapter 56 of the laws of 2024). In addition, the New York State Board of Regents seeks to provide all eligible four-year-olds with full-day prekindergarten services by 2030, and then expand to full-day for all three-year-olds by 2035. This report is intended to build towards a roadmap to achieving this goal by identifying barriers to this work, including New York State’s complicated prekindergarten (PreK) funding and related laws. Each of the four dedicated Prekindergarten funding sources has varying requirements for quality standards and different mechanisms for data collection and reporting.
Child Counts Reminder 2025 -2026
The Office of Early Learning has created a checklist to assist districts in preparing for 2025 -2026 UPK child counts. Please see the 2025-2026 School District UPK Child Counts Reporting, as well as the July 2025-2026 Child Counts Memo for guidance and information regarding the coding of UPK students. The 2025-2026 Funding Coding Overview is another helpful resource.
