Blue River Valley School Corporation

Blue River Valley School Corporation is a U.S. local government school district headquartered in New Castle, Indiana, that receives federal grants as a prime recipient under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program and acts as a sub-recipient on formula-grant allocations flowing from the Indiana Department of Education.

Blue River Valley operates exclusively in the federal grant space with no federal contracting activity. The district functions as a prime recipient on five annual grants from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program (a formula-grant assistance type), with awards dating July 1, 2022 through July 1, 2026 and ultimate completion dates spanning September 30, 2023 through September 30, 2027. The district also holds a substantial sub-recipient footprint, acting as a downstream recipient on fifty-one grant allocations from the Indiana Department of Education, with monthly and annual pass-through awards spanning from 2022 through 2026. Together, prime and sub-recipient activity totals fifty-eight awards with $5.1 million in combined obligated dollars across the federal grant portfolio.

Customer concentration is high and heavily weighted to education and nutrition assistance programs. The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for thirty awards across the portfolio, while the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (which oversees child nutrition and feeding programs) totals twenty-one awards. The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services rounds out the customer set with six awards. These three funding agencies cover 98% of recent awards. The prime-versus-sub split is heavily skewed toward sub-recipient work: only seven awards (12% of total) are prime grants to Blue River Valley directly; the remaining fifty-one awards (88%) are allocations received through the Indiana state education agency, reflecting the structure of federal pass-through grants to local school districts. All prime awards are formula grants rather than competitive grants. Activity has shown gradual growth over the past five years, from five awards in 2022 to ten in 2025, with eight awards in 2026. Only one award faces completion inside the next twenty-four months, reflecting the rolling annual cycles of school-district formula grants.