Alpena School District 5

Alpena School District 5, doing business as Alpena Elementary School, is a U.S. local government school district entity based in Alpena, Arkansas that receives federal education and school safety grants as a prime recipient from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and as a sub-recipient from the Arkansas Department of Education. The district does not hold federal contracts and operates entirely within the K-12 education and student support funding ecosystem rather than the competitive federal contracting marketplace.

The district's federal footprint centers on three core grant programs. The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education has awarded Alpena the Small, Rural School Achievement Program on a recurring annual cycle (awards issued July 1, 2023, July 1, 2024, July 1, 2025, and July 1, 2026, each running through September 30 of the following year). In October 2022, the Community Oriented Policing Program awarded Alpena $497,250 under the School Violence Prevention Program to implement school safety initiatives and collaborative law-enforcement partnerships through September 30, 2025. Sub-awards flow from the Arkansas Department of Education, channeling federal Title I (student achievement and literacy/math support), Title II (teacher and principal quality improvement), special education services under IDEA, Student Support and Academic Enrichment (SSAE) funds, child nutrition program (breakfast, lunch, and after-school snacks), and before-and-after school enrichment and tutorial programs. The district also receives federal child nutrition reimbursements based on meal claims submitted according to USDA nutrition standards.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 30 of 47 total awards, the USDA Food and Nutrition Service for 12, and the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services for 4. The remaining award is the COPS Office school safety grant. All sub-awards pass through the Arkansas Department of Education as the prime grantee. Alpena's grant footprint has grown modestly year to year, with five awards in 2022, fourteen in 2023, six in 2024, and seven in 2025, though recent activity reflects the ongoing annual formula-grant cycle rather than new program awards. Across the 47 awards tracked, the district has obligated $2.3 million in combined federal dollars. One award completes within the next twenty-four months: the COPS Office school safety grant (ultimate completion September 30, 2025). The Small, Rural School Achievement Program award issued July 1, 2026 is the most recent, with completion scheduled for September 30, 2027. Alpena's engagement is transactional: the district operates as a direct recipient of formula-based K-12 education and nutrition funding and does not engage federal contractors, subcontractors, or competitive procurement channels in its federal grant work.