Central Valley Public School

Central Valley Public School, doing business as Central Valley High School And Elementary School, is a U.S. local government school district entity located in Buxton, North Dakota, that receives federal funding as a prime recipient under education and child nutrition grant programs and as a sub-recipient under federal food assistance and education-improvement initiatives administered through the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction.

Central Valley is not a federal contractor and holds no contract vehicles. Its federal footprint is entirely grant-based, concentrated in two federal agencies. The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (part of the Department of Education) funds the school district as prime recipient under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program, a formula grant: awards were issued in July 2022, July 2023, July 2024, July 2025, and most recently July 2026, with ultimate completion dates running through September 2027. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service funds the district as a sub-recipient through the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction, distributing support under the National School Lunch Program (NSLP Paid and NSLP Free/Reduced pricing tiers), the School Breakfast Program (SBP), the Child Nutrition Block Grant (CN Block), and Title I education-improvement funding, including Emergency Elementary and Secondary School Relief (ESSER III) grants. Sub-awards under these programs flow monthly or quarterly, with awards dating from November 2022 through September 2026.

Recent activity has grown modestly — two awards in 2022 to twenty-two in 2026 — though dollar obligations across all awards total $338 thousand, reflecting the formulaic small-dollar nature of school lunch and rural education assistance. The district's award portfolio skews heavily toward sub-recipient status: seventy of eighty-one total awards (86%) are sub-awards, with only eleven prime awards, all under elementary and secondary education programs. The top two customer agencies by award count account for 100% of awards, with the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service representing sixty-four awards and the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education representing seventeen awards. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. Federal grant funding supports student nutrition programs, Title I supplemental instruction, pandemic recovery initiatives, and rural school capacity-building in a small, geographically isolated district.