Idabel Independent School District 5

Idabel Independent School District 5, doing business as Idabel Public Schools, is a U.S. local government school district based in Idabel, Oklahoma that receives federal education and nutrition grants as a prime recipient and sub-recipient from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) and the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service.

Idabel Public Schools operates exclusively as a grant recipient; it does not hold federal contracts or compete for procurement. As a prime recipient, the district accounts for 65% of recent awards, primarily through two recurring federal grant programs: Indian Education Formula Grants to LEAs and the Impact Aid Program, Title VII, Section 7003. The district has received annual Indian Education Formula Grants since at least 2022, with the most recent award dated July 1, 2026 and a completion date of June 30, 2027. It holds three active Impact Aid awards: one dated March 28, 2022 (completion Sep 30, 2027), one dated February 15, 2023 (completion Sep 30, 2028), one dated October 11, 2023 (completion Sep 30, 2029), one dated December 16, 2024 (completion Sep 30, 2030), and one dated October 1, 2025 (completion Sep 30, 2031). These grants support American Indian education services and provide federal impact aid for areas affected by federal land use or military installations.

As a sub-recipient, Idabel Public Schools receives pass-through funding from the Oklahoma Department of Education and the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education. The predominant sub-award category involves nutrition reimbursement from the National School Lunch Program and related child nutrition initiatives, with eighteen sub-awards since 2023 focused on providing nutritionally adequate meals. The district also receives sub-awards in adult education, vocational education, Title IV supplemental education services (including academic support for rural and low-income areas, immigrant student services, and youth development programming), and Title I compensatory education support.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 45 of the 66 total awards in the source portfolio (68% of activity), with the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service accounting for 12 awards (18%). Combined, these two federal customers through their respective state pass-through grantees represent 97% of Idabel Public Schools' recent federal award activity. The district has obligated $7.2 million in total federal funding across all awards in the source data.

Recent activity shows volatility: two awards in 2022, five in 2023, eighteen in 2024, six in 2025, and two in 2026 year-to-date. Only one award has an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. The district's federal footprint is stable and predictable, anchored to recurring formula-grant and pass-through nutrition-subsidy mechanisms rather than competitive procurement or task-order vehicles.