Cameron County School District

Cameron County School District, a Pennsylvania public school district headquartered in Emporium, operates as a federal grant recipient (6% of recent awards as prime recipient) and overwhelmingly as a sub-recipient (94% of recent awards) on education and nutrition programs administered through state education agencies.

The district's federal footprint concentrates almost entirely on two agencies and their underlying grant programs. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service funds 50 of 62 total awards (80% of the award count) through meal and nutrition entitlement programs channeled via the Pennsylvania Department of Education as prime grantee; these sub-awards reimburse the district for providing meals and milk to school children. The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education funds the remaining 11 awards, which split between formula grants for rural school achievement (two prime grants to Cameron County directly, awarded July 1, 2025 and July 1, 2026, with ultimate completion dates of September 30, 2026 and September 30, 2027 respectively) and sub-awards from Pennsylvania's Department of Education for rural school improvement and pandemic relief activities. The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 supplied emergency education recovery funding to the district via a sub-award dated April 5, 2022. A single equipment grant from the Department of Agriculture, dated March 24, 2022, supported school food authority purchases for meal preparation and food safety infrastructure.

Cameron County's recent activity has accelerated sharply — two awards in 2022 through nine in 2024, then 22 in 2025 and 17 in 2026 year-to-date — reflecting the frequency of nutrition entitlement disbursements flowing through Pennsylvania's pass-through mechanism. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $2.9 million. Only one award carries an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure in that window. The district does not hold federal contract vehicles or prime contractor positions on contracts; its federal engagement is limited to education and child nutrition grant participation as a state subrecipient and direct rural school achievement grant recipient.