Burke Central School Distict 36

Burke Central School District 36, based in Lignite, North Dakota, is a U.S. government entity operating as a sub-recipient of federal education and child nutrition grants, not a contractor. The school district receives federal funding as a pass-through from the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction and the Department of Agriculture, with no prime contracting footprint and no participation in federal contract vehicles.

Burke Central School is structured as a state government entity with a federal grant portfolio concentrated in two principal programs. As a prime grant recipient, the district holds awards under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, with awards issued July 1, 2022 through July 1, 2026, running through completion dates of September 30, 2023, September 30, 2024, and September 30, 2027 respectively. The bulk of the district's federal activity flows through sub-grants from the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction, the state's pass-through agency for federal education and nutrition funding. Between July 2024 and August 2026, Burke Central received fifty sub-grant awards covering child nutrition programs — the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) free and reduced-price meal service, NSLP paid meal service, the School Breakfast Program (SBP), and the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP) — as well as Title I grants, Title V (Improving Teacher Quality) transfers, special education grants under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Preschool program (CFDA 84.173A), and special education professional development grants (SPDG). These sub-awards flow from the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service and the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

The district's customer concentration is uniform across three federal agencies: the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (42 awards, 64% of volume), the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (22 awards, 33% of volume), and the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (2 awards, 3% of volume), accounting for 100% of the district's recorded awards. Recent activity has accelerated sharply — one award in 2022, one in 2023, four in 2024, seventeen in 2025, and thirty in 2026 — driven primarily by quarterly and monthly nutrition-program sub-grants issued by the state. Combined dollars obligated across all sixty-six awards total $367 thousand, reflecting the sub-recipient status and the formula-grant nature of the underlying federal programs. With one award reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, the district faces minimal near-term recompete exposure. Burke Central School operates entirely within the federal K-12 education and school nutrition ecosystem as a sub-recipient, not as a potential prime contractor or teaming partner for federal vendors.