Marmaton Valley USD

Marmaton Valley USD, doing business as Marmaton Valley Elementary School, is a Kansas public school district that receives federal education funding as a grant recipient from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and from the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service. The district operates as a sub-recipient on 61% of its recent federal awards, receiving block grants and Title I funding through the Kansas State Department of Education.

Marmaton Valley USD is a U.S. government entity (public school district) based in Moran, Kansas. The district has no federal contract prime awards and does not sit on federal contract vehicles. Its federal footprint is entirely grant-based, concentrated in K–12 education funding and child nutrition assistance.

The district's customer base consists of two federal agencies only. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service and the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education together account for 100% of recent awards — 26 USDA awards and 25 Education awards — reflecting a highly specialized, education-focused funding profile. The combined dollars obligated across all fifty-one awards total $1.5 million, indicating small individual award sizes typical of rural school formula distributions.

The district acts as a prime recipient on five Small, Rural School Achievement Program formula grants from Education (awarded annually July 1 from 2022 through 2026, with ultimate completion dates running through September 2027), and as a sub-recipient on block grants and Title I Low Income funding distributed by the Kansas State Department of Education. Sub-award flow from Kansas began in 2022 and has grown to eleven sub-awards in 2026 alone, with multiple block grant awards arriving monthly across 2024, 2025, and 2026. The sub-recipient awards constitute instructional and operational support for the elementary school, channeled through Kansas's education distribution system.

Activity has accelerated from two awards annually in 2022 and 2023 to nine awards in 2024, ten in 2025, and eleven through July 2026. One award reaches ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete exposure. The district's federal engagement is passive grant receipt rather than procurement activity — it does not compete for contracts, does not perform work for agencies other than Education and USDA, and does not engage in teaming or subcontracting arrangements outside the Kansas Department of Education sub-award structure.