In April of 2020, the National Institute of Early Education Research ranked the Alabama First Class Pre-K program as the highest quality state-funded pre-kindergarten program in the country for the 14th consecutive year. “In 2019,” Governor Kay Ivey office announced, “Alabama First Class Pre-K received its largest ever single year funding increase…which expanded pre-k access to more than 38% of four year-olds in the state.” This issue brief, part of the Black Belt 2020 series produced by the Education Policy Center in the College of Education at the University of Alabama, explores pre-k access across Alabama with special attention paid to the Black Belt region. (author abstract)