Mascoutah Community Unit School District

Mascoutah Community Unit School District, a U.S. local government school district headquartered in Mascoutah, Illinois near Scott Air Force Base, operates as a federal grant recipient (50% of awards) and sub-recipient (50% of awards) delivering kindergarten through twelfth-grade educational services to federally connected students. The district holds no federal contracts and does not serve as a prime contractor; its federal footprint is exclusively grant-based, with all work performed as either direct recipient of Department of Education and Department of Defense Education Activity grants or as sub-recipient flowing from the Illinois State Board of Education.

The district's customer concentration is heavily tilted toward education and child nutrition grantors. The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education leads the portfolio with 27 awards, followed by the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service with 24 awards, and the Department of Defense Education Activity with 13 awards—together representing 96% of all awards. The remaining five agencies (including the Office of Career Technical and Adult Education and the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services) account for the tail volume. This split reflects the district's dual funding streams: sustained Impact Aid formula funding from ED's OESE under CFDA 84.041 (Section 7003) supporting military-connected students at Scott Air Force Base, recurring DoD Education Activity competitive grants for military-connected student support programs, and pass-through sub-awards from Illinois State Board of Education for school lunch reimbursement, special education, career technical education, and teacher professional development.

As a prime recipient, the district has secured major federal grants including a $21.0 million six-year Impact Aid Program project grant from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2031), a $2.0 million Department of Defense Education Activity competitive grant for military-connected local education agency academic and support programs (awarded September 30, 2023, through May 31, 2028), and a $2.2 million Department of Defense Education Activity block grant for promoting K-12 student achievement at military-connected schools (awarded September 30, 2022, through May 31, 2027). Recent prime awards support comprehensive general academic instruction, special education services, English language learning, school nutrition initiatives, career and technical education, teacher professional development, world language advancement, and technology integration. As a sub-recipient from the Illinois State Board of Education, the district receives monthly reimbursement awards for school breakfast and lunch program participation and periodic grants for career technical education infrastructure, professional development, instructional staffing for at-risk and ESL populations, special education (IDEA Part B flow-through), residential costs for students with disabilities, and technology connectivity.

Activity has grown substantially in recent years—three prime plus sub awards in 2022 accelerated to seventeen in 2024 and fifteen in 2025, with four awards in the first quarter of 2026. Combined dollars obligated across all 72 awards total $279.7 million. The district's subsidiary, Mascoutah High School, is registered as a non-profit organization within the corporate structure but does not appear as a separate prime or sub-recipient in the award record. The district maintains active federal engagement across seven distinct customer agencies, with recompete exposure centered on Impact Aid renewals and DoD Education Activity competitive grant recycles in the coming years.