Aquilla Independent School District

Aquilla Independent School District, a rural Texas school district based in Aquilla, Texas, receives formula grants and sub-awards from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education to support supplemental education programs for low-income students. The district does not hold federal contracts and does not serve as a prime contractor; it operates exclusively as a federal grant recipient (59% of recent awards) and sub-recipient (41% of recent awards) under Title I, Part A of the Every Student Succeeds Act and the Small, Rural School Achievement Program.

All thirty-one awards in the district's federal footprint flow through a single customer agency — the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education — covering ninety-seven percent of the source-tracked activity. The district receives annual formula grants directly under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program, with awards issued on July 1 in each fiscal year (most recently July 1, 2026 for the twelve-month period ending September 30, 2027). The district also receives sub-awards from the Texas Education Agency, which passes through federal Title I, Part A funding to support schools with high concentrations of students from low-income families. Title I sub-awards enable the district to implement school-wide or targeted-assistance programs aligned to state academic and performance standards. The district also received a sub-award in late 2021 under the Texas COVID Learning Acceleration Supports program, which distributed state and federal pandemic-recovery funding to accelerate student learning.

Activity is flat and steady — three awards annually in 2022 through 2025, with two awards in 2026 — and the combined dollars obligated across all awards total $1.3 million. Only one award (combined potential value not specified in the source) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete pressure in the near term. The district's federal relationship is entirely within K–12 education funding streams, with no exposure to other federal agencies or programs.