Maryetta School District 22

Maryetta School District 22, doing business as Maryetta Public School, is a U.S. government entity (Oklahoma public school district) located in Stilwell, Oklahoma, that acts as a prime recipient of federal education and school safety grants. The district operates a K-8 school serving approximately 551 students, 82 percent of whom are American Indian, with 78 percent qualifying for free or reduced lunch. Maryetta receives federal grants across six distinct grantor agencies, with the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounting for 60 of 80 total recent awards — a concentration reflecting the district's heavy reliance on Indian Education formula grants, Impact Aid, and specialized education programs tailored to its American Indian student population.

The Department of Education is Maryetta's primary federal partner, funding recurring formula grants under the Indian Education Grants to Local Educational Agencies program (CFDA 84.060), annual awards of $127,000 to $129,000 per cycle since 2022. The district also receives multi-year Impact Aid funding (CFDA 84.041, Section 7003) under federal property impact provisions, with project grants of $559,365 (2025–2031) and prior awards supporting the district's economically disadvantaged, federally connected student base. In October 2025, the Department of Education awarded $808,122 under the Indian Education-Special Programs for Indian Children program (CFDA 84.299) to fund the Resources for Indigenous STEAM Education (RISE) demonstration initiative running through September 2027. The Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Program awarded $265,036 in October 2025 under the School Violence Prevention Program (CFDA 16.071) to implement evidence-based school security improvements, metal detectors, emergency notification technology, and coordination with local law enforcement through September 2028.

Beyond Department of Education work, Maryetta receives federal nutrition and child health funding from the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (10 awards) and the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (5 awards). The district also participates in a multi-partner mental health initiative called Maryetta AWARE, funded by SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services under a project grant awarded December 2022 through June 2027, in partnership with the Oklahoma Department of Education, Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Phoenix Counseling, and Cherokee Nation to build trauma-informed school mental health infrastructure and multi-tiered support systems.

Maryetta acts as a sub-recipient on grants flowing through the Oklahoma State Department of Education (the primary grantee on most nutrition and academic enrichment sub-awards) and the Cherokee Nation (prime grantee on child health service sub-awards from federal programs supporting tribal early education and health services). Over the past five years, award volume has grown from two awards in 2022 to fifteen in 2024, with nine awards in 2025 and two in 2026; four awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months. The district's federal footprint is exclusively grant-based — no federal contracts or contract vehicles appear in the source — and is concentrated in education and student support services delivery to a high-need American Indian student population in rural northeastern Oklahoma.