Holbrook School District 3

Holbrook School District 3, doing business as Holbrook High School & JR High, is a U.S. local government school district in rural Holbrook, Arizona that operates as a federal grant recipient—not a contractor—receiving direct formula and project grants from the Department of Education for K-12 educational services to a student population with significant American Indian enrollment. The district does not hold federal contracts; it acts as a prime recipient on Department of Education grants and as a sub-recipient on pass-through grants from the Arizona Department of Education.

The district's federal funding footprint concentrates almost entirely in education-related grants. The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 52 of the district's 67 total awards (93% of award count), centered on two recurring grant programs: Indian Education Grants to Local Educational Agencies (CFDA 84.060), a formula grant awarded annually at roughly $237,000 to $244,000 per cycle, and the Impact Aid Program (CFDA 84.041, Title VII Section 7003), a project grant that supplies larger infusions—most recently $6.337 million on October 1, 2025, running through September 30, 2031. Impact Aid compensates for federal property tax exemptions that reduce the district's tax base; the district serves students living on federal property and those with parents employed on federal property or on active duty in the uniformed services. Indian Education formula grants support culturally appropriate instruction, academic intervention, professional development for teachers, and preservation of Native languages, traditions, and histories. The district also receives sub-awards from the Arizona Department of Education under Title I (school improvement), Title II (teacher quality), Title IV-A (student support and enrichment), IDEA Basic (special education), Rural and Low-Income Schools (RLIS), Career and Technical Education (CTE), and ESSER III (pandemic recovery).

Three additional federal agencies appear in the award portfolio at minimal scale: the Department of Health and Human Services Indian Health Service (3 awards, $33 thousand combined potential value), the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (3 awards), and the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (2 awards). Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $115.2 million, substantially exceeding the $66 thousand combined potential value figure—reflecting that prior-year grants have been obligated and spent over multi-year performance periods.

Activity has grown modestly from two awards in 2022 to ten in 2025, with five awards recorded through mid-2026. Only one award faces completion in the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. The district's role is exclusively as an educational recipient and implementer of federal K-12 policy, not as a vendor or service provider to federal agencies.