Arlington School District

Arlington School District, doing business as Arlington Independent School District 38-1, is a South Dakota public school district that operates as a federal grant recipient under the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service. The district acts as a prime recipient on direct formula grants and as a sub-recipient on pass-through allocations from the South Dakota Department of Education. Arlington ISD 38-1 is a municipal government entity located in Arlington, South Dakota, with no federal contract prime or subcontract activity — all 32 recent awards in the source are grants or grant sub-awards.

Arlington ISD 38-1's federal grant footprint centers on two agencies and five distinct federal grant programs. The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 26 of 31 awards (97% of the recent portfolio), split between direct prime formula grants under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program and sub-recipient allocations including Title I Basic Grants, Title IV (Student Support and Academic Enrichment), Title IIA (Improving Teacher Quality under the Rural Education Achievement Program), and Title I Basic awards. The district has received Small, Rural School Achievement Program formula grants in five consecutive fiscal cycles (July 2022 through July 2026), with ultimate completion dates running through September 2027. The Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service accounts for five awards, all routed through South Dakota Department of Education as pass-through prime grantee, covering National School Lunch Program block grants and school lunch claims spanning fiscal years 2023 through 2026.

The district's sub-recipient role dominates recent volume. Twelve of 32 awards (37%) are sub-awards from the South Dakota Department of Education, the sole intermediary prime grantee in the source data. Sub-award descriptions identify Title I, Title IV, REAP, and National School Lunch Program block-grant funding streams, with award dates clustering in September and October annually. Combined dollars obligated across all 32 awards total $932 thousand — consistent with a small rural school district's federal grant scale. One award is scheduled to reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. The district does not pursue or hold federal contracts, IDIQs, GWACs, or BPAs; its entire federal footprint is grant-based K-12 education funding routed through statutory formula and block-grant mechanisms.