Crazy Horse School

Crazy Horse School, a U.S. government entity and local school district located in Martin, South Dakota, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering K–12 education and mental health services to Native American students on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The school district does not hold federal contracts and does not compete for contract vehicles; it functions exclusively as a grant recipient (71% of awards as prime recipient, 29% as sub-recipient) under federal education and health programs.

Crazy Horse School's federal footprint centers on three distinct capability areas. The primary focus is administering Indian Education Formula Grants to Local Educational Agencies through the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, which accounts for 19 awards spanning annual funding cycles from 2022 through 2026. The school district also serves as a lead grantee on two multi-year project grants: the Ta'Sunke Witko Owayawa Project Aware, a trauma-informed, culturally-informed school-based mental and behavioral health program funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Center for Mental Health Services, running through September 2026 and serving 400 students, school staff, and community members annually with counseling, cultural mentorship, and suicide prevention training across Jackson County and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation; and the Wanblee Futures Project, a teacher-development initiative funded by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education running through September 2027, designed to create pathways for Native American educators on the reservation. Beyond prime grants, Crazy Horse School acts as a sub-recipient of nutrition and environmental-health funding, including National School Lunch Program Block Grant sub-awards from the South Dakota Department of Education (food service administration) and a land-restoration sub-award from The Trust for Public Land titled Chan Wicozani Makhoche (Land of Healthy Trees).

Customer concentration is narrow and stable. The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education funds 68% of all awards (19 of 28 total), with the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service placing seven awards and SAMHSA contributing one project grant. Activity has been cyclical — three awards in 2022, rising to six in 2023, then declining to three in 2024 and two in 2025 — with only one award recorded in the most recent award cycle (July 2026). Combined dollars obligated across all federal sources total $15.7 million. Two awards reach completion within the next twenty-four months, creating modest recompete exposure tied to formula-grant renewals and project-grant continuation cycles.