Lewiston Elementary School District

Lewiston Elementary School District, a rural California K–12 public school district, receives federal grants as a prime recipient from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program (formula grant), and acts as a sub-recipient on federal food assistance and teacher-quality grants cascaded from the California Department of Education.

Lewiston Elementary is a U.S. local government entity headquartered in Lewiston, California. The district does not hold federal contracts as a prime or subcontractor; its entire federal footprint is grant-based. Over the past five years, activity has accelerated — one award in 2022 and 2023, two in 2024 and 2025, and eight in 2026 — driven by recent federal grant receipts and sub-grant allocations flowing from state education channels.

The district's federal customer base is concentrated within the Department of Education. The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 22 of 28 awards (96% of activity by count), with the remaining work distributed across the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (4 awards) and the Department of Education Office of English Language Acquisition (1 award). The district acts as prime recipient in 68% of its awards and as sub-recipient in 32%, predominantly receiving formula-grant distributions from the Small, Rural School Achievement Program and cascading sub-allocations from the California Department of Education for school lunch programs (National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program), English language learner support, Title I high-poverty school improvement, and teacher quality initiatives. Recent sub-awards dated June through September 2026 address English proficiency for limited-English-proficient students, high-poverty school instruction, and student academic achievement capacity-building.

Combined dollars obligated across all 28 awards total $319 thousand, a sub-million portfolio reflecting the formula-grant and sub-recipient structure characteristic of rural school districts. One award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (recompete window). The district's federal role is recipient of education and nutrition support rather than a provider of goods or services to federal customers; any competitive-intelligence value lies in understanding the district's federal funding streams and sub-recipient relationships with California's education department rather than in assessing a vendor's contract footprint or teaming capacity.