Knox County Board Of Education

Knox County Board Of Education (doing business as Knox County Schools) is a Kentucky school district that operates exclusively as a federal grant sub-recipient, receiving all six of its recent federal awards as pass-through funding from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education via the prime grantee Partners For Rural Impact, Inc. The district is a U.S. local government entity and public school district, not a for-profit vendor, and holds no prime federal contracts or grants.

Knox County Schools' federal footprint is narrowly concentrated within a single customer agency and a single prime relationship. The Department of Education accounts for 100% of the district's six awards, all of which flow through Partners For Rural Impact as the federal grant prime recipient. The district has received $41.4 million in combined obligation dollars across these sub-awards since 2020. Activity is sparse and episodic: one award in 2020, two in 2021, two in 2024, and one most recently in February 2026. The district has no presence on government-wide acquisition contracts, schedules, or IDIQs.

The sub-award work centers on K-12 student support and community programming. A February 2026 sub-award funds tutoring services throughout the district. Two awards dated July 1, 2024 (appearing to be duplicates or companion tranches of the same initiative) support the broader cradle-to-career programming partnership extending services to families and communities across the neighborhood. All three named awards are managed through the same prime grantee relationship, signaling that Knox County Schools' federal engagement is channeled entirely through Partners For Rural Impact's grant administration rather than through direct federal procurement or competitive bidding. The district does not compete for federal work; it receives allocated sub-grant funding tied to its role as a rural Kentucky public school system.