Hitchcock County School

Hitchcock County Schools (doing business as Hitchcock Co Jr-Sr HS), a U.S. local government school district headquartered in Trenton, Nebraska, operates as a prime recipient and sub-recipient of federal education and nutrition grants from the Department of Education and the Department of Agriculture. The district does not hold federal contracts; its federal footprint consists entirely of grant awards.

Hitchcock County Schools receives federal grants through two primary channels. As a prime recipient, the district has drawn five formula grants from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program, with awards dated July 1 of each year from 2022 through 2026, running through September 30 in their respective grant years. As a sub-recipient, the district has received 27 federal education and nutrition grants flowing from the Department of Education Nebraska (the state prime grantee) and, by implication, from the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service. Sub-award descriptions reference Title I grants to local education agencies, Title I Part A basic grants to LEAs, IDEA special education grants (Part B and non-public provisions), state education blocks, school mental health project funding, and child nutrition support. Between 2023 and 2026, the district received sub-awards dated as recently as May 2026, reflecting ongoing cash flow from state pass-through grants tied to the federal fiscal year.

Customer concentration is nearly total with the Department of Education, which accounts for 28 awards across its two relevant offices — the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (26 awards as prime and sub-recipient combined) and the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (2 awards). The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service rounds out the funding set with 19 awards, all sub-awards flowing through the Nebraska state education department. Combined obligated dollars total $887 thousand across 47 awards, reflecting the modest funding scale of a small, rural school district in a single county. Award volume has grown from one award in 2022 to eleven in both 2024 and 2025, with five awards dated in 2026. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal — only one award faces ultimate completion in that window, indicating stable, formula-driven grant flows with minimal disruption risk for the district's federal funding.