Lidgerwood School District 28

Lidgerwood School District 28 (doing business as Lidgerwood Elementary School), a U.S. local government school district based in Lidgerwood, North Dakota, receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient and sub-recipient under education and child nutrition programs administered by the Department of Education and the Department of Agriculture. The district does not hold federal contracts and operates entirely within the federal grant space, acting as prime recipient on five Small, Rural School Achievement Program grants and as sub-recipient on seventy-five child nutrition and elementary education sub-awards flowing from the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction.

The district's federal footprint is concentrated in two agencies. The Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service accounts for 68 of 82 total awards, delivering child nutrition programs including the National School Lunch Program (NSLP Free/Reduced and Paid tiers), School Breakfast Program (SBP), Child Nutrition Block Grants (CN Block), and Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP). The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 14 awards, split between five prime Small, Rural School Achievement Program formula grants (awarded annually on July 1 with September 30 completion dates across fiscal years 2023 through 2027) and nine Title I Comingle sub-awards from the state education agency. Sub-awards flow exclusively through the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction as the state's pass-through entity for federal child nutrition and education dollars.

Activity has grown consistently — one award in 2022 rising to twenty-five in 2026 — driven by the frequency of monthly child nutrition sub-awards from the state rather than an increase in principal grant capacity. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $480 thousand, reflecting the formula-grant and reimbursable-meal-program nature of the federal funding. Only one award faces ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure in the near term. The district's role as a sub-recipient of federal pass-through funding from the state education agency is structural to how federal education and nutrition dollars flow to individual school buildings and presents no procurement opportunity for federal contractors; the district administers and operates its school operations using these funds rather than procuring goods or services from external vendors.