The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded the Town of Bourne $120,186 under the Impact Aid Program, Title VII, Section 7003 on October 1, 2025, for a project grant period extending through September 30, 2031.
The award supports K-12 education services in a school district where federal property acquisitions significantly constrain local tax revenue. Impact Aid replaces lost local revenue in districts where federally connected children live on or near federal property exempt from local property taxation, reducing the tax base available to fund education. The Town of Bourne qualifies under Section 7003, which provides assistance to districts where at least 3 percent or 400 of the total number of eligible federally connected children in average daily attendance live on federal property, have a parent who works on federal property, or have a parent on active duty in the uniformed services.
Place of performance is Buzzards Bay, Bourne, Massachusetts. The Town of Bourne operates as a child entity under Town of Bourne Town Hall and serves as a prime recipient for federal education and child nutrition grants. The recipient's federal footprint centers on the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, which accounts for 25 of 47 total awards in the Town's portfolio, with the Town acting as prime recipient on 24 awards and sub-recipient on 23 awards primarily through pass-through grants from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.