Alden Conger School District 242

Alden Conger School District 242, doing business as Independent School District 242, is a U.S. local government school district located in Alden, Minnesota, that receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program (CFDA 84.358, a formula grant).

The district operates exclusively as a prime grant recipient; it holds no federal contracts and does not serve as a subcontractor on federal procurements. All 23 awards in its federal footprint are grant awards from a single customer agency — the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education — accounting for 100% of activity. Nineteen of the twenty-three awards are direct prime grants to the district; four are sub-grants flowed through the Minnesota Department of Education, including a $1.2 million sub-grant for ESSER III American Rescue Plan funds designated for learning recovery and lost instructional time (awarded December 10, 2021). The district has been receiving Small, Rural School Achievement Program formula grants continuously since at least 2007, with recent awards issued annually on July 1 for the 2022–2023, 2023–2024, 2024–2025, 2025–2026, and 2026–2027 fiscal years. Combined dollars obligated across all twenty-three awards total $1.1 million.

Activity is sparse and formulaic. The source shows one award per year for 2022 and 2023, three awards in 2024, and one award each in 2025 and 2026. The district faces one recompete event within the next twenty-four months — the current Small, Rural School Achievement Program award carries an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2027, placing it outside the immediate recompete window. The sub-grant awards are passed through the Minnesota Department of Education rather than administered directly by the district as prime recipient.

For business development professionals at federal contractors, this entity is not a competitive procurement target. The district operates in the K–12 education grant space as a rural school district receiving formula-based federal education funding, not as a procuring customer or a vendor offering goods or services to the federal government. The award footprint reflects entitlements under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program, not discretionary contract competitions.