Coalgate School District I-1

Coalgate School District I-1, doing business as Wallace Byrd Middle School, is a U.S. government entity and educational institution located in Coalgate, Oklahoma that receives federal grant funding as a primary recipient and sub-recipient, operating exclusively in the grant space with no federal contract prime or subcontract work. The district is classified as a minority institution under federal reporting conventions.

The district's federal footprint centers on two grant streams managed by the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service. As a prime recipient, Coalgate School District I-1 holds five annual Indian Education Formula Grants to LEAs (Local Educational Agencies) from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, with awards spanning July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2027, supporting educational services for Native American students. As a sub-recipient, the district receives the majority of its federal funding through pass-through grants from the Oklahoma State Department of Education and the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture Food & Forestry. These sub-awards fund school meal programs — primarily National School Lunch Program (NSLP) reimbursements for nutritionally adequate meals and the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) reimbursements for well-balanced meals served in day care centers, after-school programs, and emergency shelters — and supplemental education funding under Title IV, Part A (Oklahoma Champions of Excellence Initiative), Title I (high-quality education for high-poverty areas), and title supplemental arts, culture, and youth development programming. A single sub-award from the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture Food & Forestry in September 2024 provided reimbursement for local food purchases under the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Local Food Systems grant program.

Activity has grown significantly in recent years: one award in 2022, eight in 2023, and twenty-five in 2024, reflecting the accumulation of rolling meal-program reimbursements and supplemental education sub-awards; recent activity dropped to four awards in 2025 and two in 2026 as the source snapshot captures only the most recent months of the current grant year. The district operates evenly split between prime recipient grants (49% of awards, 33 total) and sub-recipient pass-through funding (51%, 35 total), with combined obligated dollars of $5.6 million across all seventy-eight awards in the source. The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 32 awards and the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service for 30 awards, covering 99% of the district's recent federal award activity. Only one award faces ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, positioning the district outside immediate recompete pressure in that window.