Lenox Community School District

Lenox Community School District, a public school district in rural Iowa, is a federal grant recipient that receives recurring formula grants from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education to support K–12 instruction and student achievement programs in a small, rural school setting.

Lenox is a U.S. local government entity — specifically a public school district headquartered in Lenox, Iowa — with no prime federal contracts and no seat on federal procurement vehicles. The district operates exclusively as a grant recipient, receiving direct federal funding and sub-grants from state education agencies. All 22 awards in the source data fund education programs administered by or flowing through the Department of Education; the district has no customer concentration risk because it serves a single funding federal agency.

The district's primary funding stream is the Small, Rural School Achievement Program, administered by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education as a formula grant. Lenox has received four annual awards under this program covering the fiscal years 2023 through 2026, with award dates clustered in early July and ultimate completion dates in September of the following calendar year. Each annual SRSAP award funds school operations and achievement initiatives in a district that qualifies for the rural-school set-aside. The district also receives Title I sub-grants flowing through the Department of Education Iowa, the state education agency — specifically Title I Grants to Local Education Agencies (CFDA 84.010), including Title I school-improvement funding under Section 1003. Sub-grant awards from the state agency arrived in July 2024 and July 2025.

Over the past five years, award volume has remained flat at one to two grants per fiscal year. Combined federal dollars obligated across all twenty-two awards total $941 thousand, indicating that the district's federal funding footprint is modest in scale — consistent with a small rural district's operational and student-population size. One award (the FY 2026 SRSAP grant running through September 2027) extends beyond the next twenty-four months; the remaining award obligations complete within that window. The district does not pursue or hold competitive federal contracts, does not operate as a subcontractor to private vendors or larger school systems, and does not serve as a prime on any IDIQs, GWACs, or procurement vehicles — the award footprint is entirely formula-grant and sub-grant income from the federal education system.