Groom Independent School District

Groom Independent School District, doing business as Groom School, is a U.S. local government entity and school district that operates as a prime recipient of federal education grants from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. The district does not hold federal contracts and operates exclusively in the grant space, with no contracting vehicle presence.

Groom School is headquartered in Groom, Texas, and serves as a rural K–12 education provider operating under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program (CFDA 84.358), a formula grant that flows annually from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. The district has received consecutive annual awards under this program since at least 2022, with awards issued each July 1st through September 30th cycles. The most recent award was issued July 1, 2026, with ultimate completion scheduled for September 30, 2027. The district also appears as a sub-recipient under a Texas Education Agency grant vehicle for ESSER II (COVID-19 relief and response funding under the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act), awarded October 22, 2021.

Customer concentration is absolute: 100% of the district's federal award footprint derives from a single customer agency — the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. Over the past five years, award frequency has been stable at one per year (2022 through 2026), totaling 22 awards in the source data spanning from 2007 through 2026. Combined federal dollars obligated across all awards total $702 thousand, consistent with the profile of a small rural school district receiving formula allocations rather than competitive grants or large project-based funding. The district functions as a prime recipient in 91% of awards (20 awards) and as a sub-recipient in 9% (2 awards), placing it predominantly in a direct-award relationship with the Education Department rather than as a pass-through entity.

One award completing in the next twenty-four months represents the full recompete cliff and is the July 1, 2025 award scheduled for September 30, 2026 completion. Groom School has no federal subcontracting relationships, federal contract footprint, or presence on government-wide acquisition vehicles, making it a direct-to-agency grant recipient operating at the school-district scale rather than as a vendor serving federal customers through the contract marketplace.