Box Elder County School District

Box Elder School District, a public local government entity headquartered in Brigham City, Utah, receives federal education and nutrition funding as a grant recipient (97% of recent awards as a sub-recipient through state intermediaries) rather than as a federal contractor. The district operates within the K–12 education and child nutrition space, drawing funding from the Department of Education and the Department of Agriculture through formula grants and reimbursable meal programs flowing down from the Utah State Board of Education and the Utah Department of Health and Human Services.

The district's federal footprint reflects a classical state-passthrough structure characteristic of LEA (Local Educational Agency) funding. Of 119 recent awards spanning 2022 through July 2026, only three were prime grants; 116 were sub-awards from state intermediaries. The top customer by award count is the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (64 awards), driven by recurring National School Lunch, School Breakfast, and Child & Adult Day Care meal reimbursements flowing monthly or quarterly from the Utah State Board of Education. The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 25 awards, primarily Indian Education Formula Grants flowing directly to Box Elder as a prime recipient (three awards with ultimate completion dates of Jun 30, 2025; Jun 30, 2026; and Jun 30, 2027). The Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (13 awards) and the Department of Education Office of Career Technical and Adult Education (12 awards) round out the customer set, with sub-awards covering IDEA flow-through, Title I, Title II, CTE formula allocations, and special education preschool programs.

Box Elder's prime grant relationship centers on Indian Education Formula Grants to LEAs administered by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. Three prime awards are in the portfolio (award dates Jul 1, 2024; Jul 1, 2025; and Jul 1, 2026), each with a one-year period of performance. Sub-award work dominates the operating budget and includes meal reimbursement sub-grants (National School Lunch Free & Reduced, National School Lunch Paid, School Breakfast, After School Program, Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Program, Special Milk Program, and Child & Adult Day Care Meals) issued monthly or quarterly since 2023; formula flow-through grants for Title IA, Title IIA, IDEA special education, McKinney-Vento homeless education, and CTE career and technical education; and one-time sub-awards from the Utah Executive Office of State (American Rescue funding to Non-Public Schools, FFY2022) and Utah Department of Health and Human Services (K–12 School-Based COVID-19 Response, 2021–2023). Activity accelerated sharply from one award in 2022 to 55 in 2024, with 40 awards in 2025 and 15 to date in 2026; this trajectory reflects the normalization of monthly meal-reimbursement sub-grants rather than growth in core educational programming. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating stable multi-year federal funding through fiscal 2027. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $19.9 million over the five-year window.