Hoonah City School District

Hoonah City School District, a U.S. local government school district based in Hoonah, Alaska, receives federal educational and cultural stewardship grants as a prime recipient from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service, and the National Park Service, while serving as a sub-recipient on a larger share of education and nutrition program funding flowing through the State of Alaska's Education and Early Development Department.

The district operates as a small rural Alaska LEA with a federal footprint concentrated in education formula grants and child nutrition programs. Prime grant awards include Indian Education Formula Grants (CFDA 84.060A) and the Small, Rural School Achievement Program (CFDA 84.358), both from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, recurring on annual or multi-year cycles. The district also holds a $170,866 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 15.946) with the National Park Service Alaska Region, awarded September 15, 2024 with performance through January 30, 2026, for cultural resource stewardship and place-based curriculum development. The NPS agreement emphasizes co-stewardship frameworks that connect Hoonah youth with Glacier Bay National Park, support preservation of the Ingt language through homeland language curricula, and provide career exploration at the National Park Service for local students. The district further receives the Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP) formula grant under the Small, Rural, and Indian Schools category (Office of Elementary and Secondary Education).

Sub-recipient funding dominates the grant portfolio — 54% of 125 total awards are sub-awards flowing from the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development as the prime grantee. Sub-awards cover the National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program, Title I Basic Grants to LEAs, Special Education Title VIB LEA Grants, and State Administrative Expense fund allocations. The highest concentration appears in nutrition programs: the source lists recurring monthly or bi-monthly sub-awards for school lunch and breakfast spanning 2021 through 2026.

Federal dollar concentration is marked. The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service account for 97% of award count across 113 awards combined. The remaining agencies — the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (4 awards), the National Park Service Alaska Region (3 awards), and the Agricultural Marketing Service (1 award) — represent roughly 8 awards or 6% of activity.

Recent award trajectory has grown: three awards in 2022 to twenty-three in 2025, with eighteen awards in 2026. Only two awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, suggesting limited near-term recompete exposure for most of the district's standing grant portfolio.