American Charter Schools Foundation

American Charter Schools Foundation, doing business as Apache Trail High School, is a tax-exempt non-profit charter school that receives federal education funding as a prime recipient of formula grants and as a sub-recipient of pass-through education awards from the Arizona Department of Education. The entity operates as a child organization within the American Charter Schools Foundation parent structure and has no federal contract prime footprint; all federal transacting flows through education grant vehicles.

Apache Trail High School's federal funding footprint is concentrated in K-12 education programming. As a prime recipient, the school has received five consecutive annual awards under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, with grants awarded July 1 of each year from 2022 through 2026, running through September 30 of the following year. As a sub-recipient, the school receives pass-through funding from the Arizona Department of Education under multiple federal grant programs, including Title I grants, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Basic Subgrants to Local Educational Agencies (Section 611), Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER III) funds, and departmental block grants. Sub-award activity spans eleven awards from 2023 through 2026, with documented program work including dropout prevention staffing (a dropout prevention specialist and paraprofessionals), instructional coaching, learning-management platforms (IXL for differentiated instruction, Pear Deck for student engagement), student technology provisioning (Chromebooks), and classroom monitoring tools (Go Guardian).

Customer concentration is entirely within the Department of Education. Twelve of eighteen total awards flow from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (Small, Rural School Achievement Program prime grants); four awards come from the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (IDEA and related sub-awards); and two awards come from the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service. The school operates as a prime recipient on 39% of its federal awards and as a sub-recipient on 61%, with sub-award awards routed entirely through the Arizona Department of Education. Combined dollars obligated across all federal awards total $1.2 million across the five-year award history in the source data. One award reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating a recompete window for the Small, Rural School Achievement Program formula grant cycle. Activity has grown from one award in 2022 to a peak of five in 2025, with two awards recorded in 2026.