Hydaburg City School District

Hydaburg City School District, a U.S. government entity and Alaska local educational agency (LEA) based in Hydaburg, Alaska, is a federal grant recipient that receives formula grants and project grants from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and participates in federal child nutrition and safety programs as a sub-recipient from Alaska state intermediaries. The district does not hold prime federal contracts and operates entirely within the grant and sub-grant ecosystem, acting as prime recipient on direct federal grants and as sub-recipient on pass-through funding from Alaska state agencies.

The district's federal footprint centers on four recurring grant programs from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education: the REAP Special Qualified Agencies (SQAS) formula grant, the Indian Education Formula Grants to LEAs, PROJECT ACHIEVE, and a project grant for Prince of Wales Island Technology and Security Upgrade. As prime recipient, the district has secured awards including a REAP-SQAS formula grant (July 2026–September 2027), Indian Education Formula Grants (July 2026–June 2027 and prior years), PROJECT ACHIEVE (July 2025–July 2027), and the Prince of Wales Island Technology and Security Upgrade project grant (October 2024–September 2025). The district also acts as lead consortium partner on a Safety and Well-Being initiative under the Alaska Department of Public Safety, leveraging its experience on Prince of Wales Island to coordinate a statewide consortium of 52 school districts and safety providers on violence prevention, substance-misuse prevention, suicide prevention, and school cybersecurity work.

Sub-award activity dominates the district's volume — 57 of 108 recent awards (53%) are sub-awards flowing through the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development and the Alaska Department of Public Safety. The largest sub-award category comprises recurring National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program allocations from the Alaska state education agency, with 20+ such sub-awards in the source spanning 2021 through 2026. Additional sub-awards include Title I Basic Grants to LEAs, Special Education Title VIB LEA Grants, Migrant Education Grants, the Stronger Connections Grant Program, and the Child and Adult Care Food Program. The district received a single sub-award from the Alaska Department of Public Safety on February 17, 2025, for its consortium leadership role in the Safe Rural Alaska Communities initiative.

Customer concentration is acute: the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 60 awards, and the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service accounts for 38 awards, together representing 97% of the district's recent award count. The district has obligated $18.8 million across all awards, with activity growing from five awards in 2022 to twenty-three in 2024, followed by nineteen in 2025 and ten in 2026 year-to-date. Three awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal near-term recompete exposure. The district serves eight distinct federal customer agencies in total, though activity is dominated by education and nutrition programs serving the Alaska Native and rural communities of Prince of Wales Island.