Kneeland Elementary School District

Kneeland Elementary School District, a rural California public school district, is a prime recipient of federal formula grants administered by the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program, with 95% of recent awards flowing through the prime-recipient role and no contract or commercial-service activity in the federal space.

Kneeland Elementary is a U.S. State Government entity headquartered in Kneeland, California (Humboldt County). The district operates exclusively as a federal grant recipient — not as a contractor, vendor, or sub-recipient on federal contracts. It holds no prime contract vehicles, GWACs, BPAs, or IDIQs; it does not bid on federal competitive procurements. Its sole customer agency is the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, which accounts for 19 of 20 recent awards (95% coverage).

The district's federal footprint consists of recurring Small, Rural School Achievement Program formula grants, each awarded annually on July 1st and running through September 30th of the following fiscal year. Kneeland has received consecutive formula grants under this program for July 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023; July 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024; July 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025; July 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026; and most recently July 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027. A single sub-award dated August 31, 2026 carries a grant-program description focused on student academic achievement improvement through teacher and principal quality initiatives and increasing the number of highly qualified teachers in the classroom. Combined federal dollars obligated across all awards total $359 thousand, reflecting the modest scale typical of rural school district formula grant allocations. Activity has remained flat — one award per year in 2022 through 2025, rising to two in 2026 — with one award reaching completion inside the next twenty-four months. The district does not appear as a subcontractor on federal contracts, does not vendor commercially to federal agencies, and does not operate in any federal procurement vehicle outside the Small, Rural School Achievement Program formula-grant mechanism.