Caesar Rodney School District

Caesar Rodney School District, a U.S. local government school district headquartered in Wyoming, Delaware, operates as a federal education services provider delivering comprehensive K-12 instruction, special education, food service, transportation, and facility maintenance to military-connected students at Dover Air Force Base as both a federal contract prime and a federal grant sub-recipient.

The district's federal footprint is dominated by a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Department of Defense Education Activity, awarded July 1, 2025, with a ceiling of $78.9 million through June 30, 2030. Under this IDIQ, DoDEA has issued two delivery orders to date: a $13.5 million delivery order (August 1, 2025, ultimate completion June 30, 2026) and a $15.0 million delivery order (July 1, 2026, ultimate completion June 30, 2027). The contract scope covers instructional services at Welch Elementary and Dover AFB Middle Schools, off-base high school instruction, special education for students aged 3 through 21, Advanced Placement and world language offerings, food service operations, grounds and building maintenance for projects under $75,000, student transportation, and medical services, supporting approximately 500 military dependents. The contract is firm fixed price with a one-year base period plus four one-year option periods and operates under NAICS 611110 (Elementary and Secondary Schools). Place of performance is Wyoming, Delaware. The prior single-award IDIQ contract running from 2020 through June 2025 carried a combined value of $54.3 million, establishing the district as DoDEA's established partner for Dover AFB educational services.

Grant receipts flow through both direct and sub-recipient channels. Caesar Rodney holds four Impact Aid Program (Title VII, Section 7003, CFDA 84.041) project grants as prime recipient from the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, awarded October 2023 through October 2025, with ultimate completion dates spanning September 2028 through September 2031. Impact Aid addresses federal property tax exemptions and military presence impacts on local education finance. Additionally, the district receives federal grant sub-awards from the Department of Education Delaware as pass-through grantee, including Title I, Title II, Title III (English learner support), special education (Part B and Part C), career and technical education, school nutrition programs, comprehensive support and improvement supplements, and school bus driver retention bonuses. Recent sub-awards are dated July 2024 through September 2026, indicating recurring annual allocations aligned to the Delaware Department of Education's grants-management cycle.

The district's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward federal education offices. Across 67 awards (38 prime, 29 sub), the top five customer agencies account for 85% of recent awards by count. The Department of Defense Education Activity anchors 13 awards representing the full $328.7 million combined potential value, with the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounting for 28 awards, the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services for 7 awards, the Food and Nutrition Service for 6 awards, and the Office of Career Technical and Adult Education for 3 awards. Dollar concentration is extreme: DoDEA's 13 awards carry the entire $328.7 million combined potential value, with all other customers represented by grant and sub-award allocations of lower individual magnitude.

Activity has grown from three awards in 2022 to a peak of thirteen awards in 2025, with two awards recorded in 2026 so far. Combined obligated dollars stand at $288.1 million (88% of combined potential value), and the recompete cliff for the next twenty-four months includes one award with a $15 million combined potential value — the July 1, 2026 delivery order reaching ultimate completion June 30, 2027.

SCI-reported invoicing covers four prime service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and captures $33.2 million across FY2023–FY2025 (with no FY2022 activity in SCI). FY2023 invoicing reached $10.6 million across 62.4 FTEs, FY2024 recorded $11.1 million across 79.0 FTEs, and FY2025 invoiced $11.5 million across 78.0 FTEs. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, government-paid median hourly rates ran around $74.67/hr, with the 10th percentile at $68.82/hr and the 90th percentile at $80.53/hr. The district reports zero subcontractor hours across its SCI-reportable prime contracts, indicating direct delivery of instruction and support services without sub-engagement on those awards. SCI dollars and FTEs represent federal service contract activity above the reporting threshold and exclude the broader grant portfolio, goods procurement, and non-federal revenue.