Laona School District

Laona School District, doing business as Laona High School, is a U.S. local government school district and federal grant recipient based in Laona, Wisconsin, operating as a prime recipient on education and child nutrition federal grant programs administered by the Department of Education and the Department of Agriculture, with subordinate grant pass-through awards from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Laona School District operates exclusively as a grant recipient; the source records no federal contract prime awards or federal contract vehicles. The district's federal footprint splits evenly between prime recipient grants (52 awards, 53% of total) and sub-recipient awards flowing through Wisconsin state administration (47 awards, 47%). Prime grants from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education account for the dominant volume — Indian Education Formula Grants to LEAs (awarded annually July 1, most recent July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027), Impact Aid Program Title VII Section 7002 awards (a multi-year project grant awarded December 16, 2024 through September 30, 2030, with prior tranches in November 2023 through September 2029 and January 2022 through September 2027), and Small, Rural School Achievement Program formula grants (awarded annually July 1, most recent July 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026). As a sub-recipient, the district receives pass-through awards from Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction for the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Part B formula grants (IDEA, Sections 611 and 619), and Title I Grants to Local Education Agencies (CFDA 84.010). The district's federal grant portfolio reflects sustained education and child nutrition funding rather than contract services or consulting work.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (53 awards) and the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (38 awards), together accounting for 97% of awards across both prime and sub-recipient channels. The Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and Education line item account for 5 additional awards. Activity has grown year over year from 3 awards in 2022 to a peak of 22 in 2025, with 12 awards recorded in 2026. The combined dollars obligated across all awards totals $2.1 million, reflecting the modest scale of a rural school district's federal grant profile. Only 1 award is set to complete within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. The district's role as a grant recipient rather than a federal contractor means it operates outside the federal contract procurement and vehicle ecosystem used by commercial and nonprofit contractors.