El Dorado County Office Of Education

El Dorado County Office of Education, a California county education entity headquartered in Placerville, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering culturally tailored education services, English language instruction, special education, early childhood programs, and adult literacy services. The organization receives the majority of its federal support as a direct recipient of formula and project grants from the U.S. Department of Education rather than through prime contracting, and also functions as a sub-recipient of state-pass-through grants from the California Department of Education and California Department of Social Services.

El Dorado County Office of Education's federal footprint is dominated by education and early childhood programs. As a direct prime recipient, the organization holds formula grants under the Indian Education Grants to Local Educational Agencies program (CFDA 84.060), receiving $162,824 for the performance period July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027 and $169,052 for the prior year ending June 30, 2026, with earlier awards of $232,495 (2023–2024) and $215,783 (2022–2023). These grants fund academic instruction, cultural programming, and teacher professional development for American Indian and Alaska Native students, with administrative costs capped at 5 percent of each award. The organization also holds a multi-year project grant under the Head Start and Early Head Start program (Office of Head Start) with an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2029, supporting early childhood education and family services.

Customer concentration across the federal footprint is heavily weighted toward the Department of Education. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 87 percent of all awards, led by the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (29 awards) and the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (21 awards), with secondary volume from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (six awards), the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration (four awards), and others. Recent activity shows upward trajectory — one award in 2022 to fifteen awards in 2026 — across a combined obligations total of $326.8 million spanning seventy-five awards since 1998.

The organization functions primarily as a sub-recipient (63 percent of recent awards) of state-administered grants passed through the California Department of Education and California Department of Social Services. Sub-recipient work includes special education and related services delivery, adult education and literacy programming, English language proficiency instruction, homeless youth education coordination, child care and development services (including the Child and Adult Food Care Program and Child Care and Development Fund), and pandemic response activities. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating limited recompete exposure in the near term. Federal contract vehicles do not apply to this entity's operations.