Grady Independent School District

Grady Independent School District, doing business as Grady School, is a public K–12 school district headquartered in Lenorah, Texas, that receives federal funding as a prime grant recipient under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program (SRSAP) from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, and as a sub-recipient of Title I, Part A and ESSER II funding flowing from the Texas Education Agency.

Grady School operates exclusively in the federal education grant space, with no contract work. The district holds prime recipient status on five awards under SRSAP (formula grants for July 1, 2022 through September 30, 2027), all routed through the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. In its sub-recipient role, Grady School has received seven Title I, Part A sub-awards from the Texas Education Agency (ranging from August 2022 through September 2025) for supplemental resources supporting schools with high concentrations of low-income students, and one ESSER II sub-award (November 2021) for pandemic response and recovery. Title I, Part A sub-awards support evidence-based instructional strategies and either schoolwide or targeted-assistance program models; the district's most recent sub-award was amended in April 2025. The combined dollars obligated across all 31 awards (prime and sub) total $1.5 million over a fifteen-year window from 2007 to 2026.

The district's federal footprint is entirely concentrated with a single customer agency — the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education — accounting for 100% of awards. Activity has remained flat across the past five years (three awards in 2022, three in 2023, three in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026), with only one award reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. As a local educational agency in a small, rural school district, Grady School does not serve as a subcontractor to federal prime contractors and does not maintain parent contract vehicles or task-order relationships typical of federal vendors. The district's federal engagement is confined to formula-grant and pass-through sub-award compliance under established Education Department programs serving rural and Title I eligible schools.