Elk Valley Unified School District 283

Elk Valley Unified School District 283, a Kansas public school district located in Longton, operates as a federal grant recipient, securing education and nutrition funding from the Department of Education and the Department of Agriculture as both a prime recipient and a sub-recipient through the Kansas State Department of Education. The district is a U.S. government entity and does not hold federal contracts.

The district's federal footprint concentrates on two funding sources in near-equal measure. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service and the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education account for 98% of awards, with 31 and 29 awards respectively across the past several years. The district received three prime grants under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program formula grant from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education: awards in July 2022 (ultimate completion September 2023), July 2023 (ultimate completion September 2024), and July 2026 (ultimate completion September 2027). The bulk of the district's federal activity flows through sub-awards from the Kansas State Department of Education, which has passed through 43 federal grant awards across multiple programs including Block Grants, Title I Low Income, Rural Low Income, and 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC). Sub-award activity accelerated in 2024–2026, with fourteen awards in 2026 alone, driven primarily by block grant pass-throughs and nutrition-related programming.

Combined obligated dollars across all sixty-one awards (prime and sub, 2007–2026) total $1.7 million, reflecting the modest scale of a small rural district. The district faces minimal recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months, with only one award reaching ultimate completion in that window. The district's federal grant profile is characteristic of rural K–12 education: formula-based allocations for low-income student support, nutrition services through USDA, and supplemental after-school programming funding routed through the state education agency rather than direct federal procurement.