Conway Springs Unified School District #356

Conway Springs Unified School District #356, a Kansas-based public school district, is a recipient of federal grants from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and acts as a sub-recipient of block grants and Title I funding flowing from the Kansas State Department of Education. The district does not hold federal contracts as a prime contractor and does not compete for procurements.

Conway Springs USD 356 operates almost exclusively in the federal grant space as a K–12 education entity. The district has received direct prime grants under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program (CFDA 84.358) from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education in five consecutive fiscal years: July 1, 2022 through September 30, 2027. Concurrently, the district functions as a sub-recipient on a much larger volume of federal education funding: the source lists 31 sub-awards flowing from the Kansas State Department of Education, including multiple block grants, Title I Low Income awards, and a cybersecurity/IT project sub-award dated May 14, 2026. The district has also received one sub-award (classified as "Education of Low Income Students") from the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service channel.

Customer concentration is split between two federal sources. The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service each account for approximately 50% of the district's award footprint (26 and 24 awards respectively across all 51 federal awards in the source), though the vast majority of dollar volume flows through sub-awards rather than the smaller direct Small, Rural School Achievement Program grants. The source reports $1.8 million in combined dollars obligated across all awards, reflecting the formula-grant and pass-through structure typical of K–12 education funding. Award activity has risen to ten awards per year in both 2024 and 2026, compared to two or three per year in 2022 and 2023. Of the awards in the portfolio, only one faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete exposure.