Elbert County School District C-2

Elbert County School District C-2, doing business as Kiowa High School, is a U.S. local government school district entity that receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient from the Department of Education and the Department of Agriculture, and serves as a sub-recipient on nutrition and school-support grants flowing from the Board of Education Colorado. The district operates across three distinct federal funding agencies and holds no federal contracts; its federal engagement is exclusively grant-based.

The district's federal footprint is small and narrowly concentrated. Total obligated dollars across all fifty awards in the source data span $991 thousand — a program portfolio typical of rural school districts receiving formula grants and nutrition sub-awards rather than competitive or discretionary awards. The top three customer agencies (coverage 100% of awards) are the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (27 awards), the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (21 awards), and the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance (2 awards). Elbert County operates as a prime recipient on only 38% of awards (19 prime grants) and as a sub-recipient on 62% (31 sub-awards), with the sub-recipient role dominated by nutrition and student-support programs flowing through the Board of Education Colorado as the state-level pass-through entity.

Prime grant activity consists of recurring annual awards under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE). The district received formula grants on July 1 in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026, with ultimate completion dates running through September 30 of the following fiscal year. These awards represent the bulk of the district's direct federal prime relationship. Sub-recipient work, by contrast, is heavily nutrition-focused. Since 2023, Elbert County has received monthly or quarterly pass-through allocations from the Board of Education Colorado under the Nutrition Block grant programs (fiscal years 2324, 2425, and 2526), with additional sub-awards for Summer EBT, Preventing School Violence, Student Support and Academic Enrichment, and Title II, Part A Teacher and Principal Training & Recruiting. The most recent sub-award was dated July 1, 2026, and nutrition sub-awards from the Board of Education Colorado continue on a recurring basis. Only one award (the most recent OESE Small, Rural School Achievement Program prime grant, expiring September 30, 2027) carries an ultimate completion date beyond twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete exposure in the near term.

Award activity has accelerated modestly — one award in 2022 to twelve in 2026 — but the underlying dollar volume remains flat and small, reflecting the formulaic and recurring nature of rural school district funding. The district does not compete for federal contracts and does not serve as a subcontractor on commercial or defense prime contracts.