Bellevue Public Schools

Bellevue Public Schools, a K-12 school district in Bellevue, Nebraska, serves as a federal grant recipient focused on K-12 education and support services for military-connected and federally impacted student populations, operating predominantly as a prime recipient on direct Department of Defense Education Activity and Department of Education awards and as a sub-recipient on state pass-through grants routed through the Nebraska Department of Education and the Nebraska Department of Water, Energy, and Environment.

Bellevue Public Schools is a non-profit, other-than-for-profit educational institution strategically positioned near Offutt Air Force Base, with federal eligibility anchored to the presence of military-connected and federally dependent students. The district's federal footprint spans 97 awards across the past two decades, with 35 prime awards (36% of total) and 62 sub-awards (64%), collectively obligating $139.8 million. The award portfolio has accelerated sharply — from two awards in 2022 to twenty-nine in 2025 — signaling expansion in federal funding streams and sub-award flow-through. Most recent activity (August 2026) reflects ongoing sub-recipient engagement with the Nebraska Department of Education on special education, career and technical education, and block-grant disbursements.

Customer concentration is overwhelming. The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education leads with 39 awards, followed by the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (24 awards), the Department of Defense Education Activity (12 awards), the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (9 awards), and the Department of Education Office of English Language Acquisition (3 awards), representing 90% of recent award count across five agencies. This concentration reflects the district's dual eligibility under Impact Aid (Section 7003, CFDA 84.041) and DoDEA's Competitive Grants for Military-Connected Schools.

Prime award work focuses on military-connected student achievement and facility modernization. Bellevue received $2.897 million from DoDEA on July 27, 2026 (award date), under the Promoting K-12 Student Achievement at Military-Connected Schools program (CFDA 12.556), to modernize military-connected school facilities through September 26, 2031. An earlier $2 million DoDEA competitive grant under the Military-Connected Local Educational Agencies for Academic and Support Programs (MCASP, CFDA 12.556), awarded September 30, 2024, funds curriculum development, academic interventions, counseling, enrichment, educator training, and technology integration for highly mobile military-connected students. Bellevue has received three major DoDEA grants totaling approximately $4.4 million under MCASP. Impact Aid awards from the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education fund general instruction, special education, English language learning, school nutrition, and career and technical education; the most recent award of $2.584 million (October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2031) reflects the district's enrollment of federally connected children — those living on Federal property or with parents employed on Federal property or on active duty — constituting the qualifying threshold. Sub-recipient awards are routed through the Nebraska Department of Education across Title I basic grants to local educational agencies, supporting effective instruction grants, English language acquisition state formula grants, special education (IDEA Part B and Part C), career and technical education (Perkins), student support and academic enrichment grants, and Education Stabilization Fund (ESSER) programs. The Nebraska Department of Water, Energy, and Environment passed through lead remediation-in-schools funding (April 2024).