Montezuma County Mancos School District Re 6

Montezuma County Mancos School District Re 6, doing business as Mancos Junior High School, is a U.S. local government school district located in Mancos, Colorado that receives federal education and nutrition grants as a prime recipient and sub-recipient. The district does not hold prime contracts and operates 73% of its federal footprint as a sub-recipient of pass-through funds distributed by the Board of Education Colorado and other state and federal intermediaries.

The district's federal footprint centers on two primary funding streams: the Small, Rural School Achievement Program (SRSA) administered by the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, which the district has received as a prime recipient on five annual awards (July 2022 through July 2026), and a broad portfolio of sub-awards routed through the Board of Education Colorado covering nutrition programs, Title I, Title II, Title IV, and specialized initiatives. The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 32 awards across the district's recent history, while the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service accounts for 31 awards, reflecting recurring monthly nutrition block allocations and supplemental grants such as Summer EBT and Local Food For Schools. The Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service round out the customer set with three and two awards respectively, covering 96% of all awards.

The district's sub-award portfolio is dominated by monthly nutrition block distributions (Nutrition Block 2223, 2324, 2425, 2526) flowing through the Board of Education Colorado, beginning in 2023 and continuing through the present. Complementary sub-awards include Title IA, Title II, and Title IV educational program sub-awards, along with specialized initiatives such as COMTSS (Colorado Multi-Tiered System of Supports), EASI Supplemental Grant for Improvement Efforts, and Summer EBT. These sub-awards began accumulating in volume from 2023 onward, with seventeen awards in 2024 and twelve through August 2026, reflecting steady operational activity.

Activity has grown from a baseline of one award in 2022 to twenty awards in 2024 and seventeen in 2025, demonstrating increasing engagement with federal education and nutrition funding. Combined dollars obligated across all seventy-one awards total $1.9 million. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating a stable, non-urgent recompete posture. The district's federal role is purely educational institution operations — K–12 school meals, Title funding for teacher quality and disadvantaged-student support, and rural school capacity building — with no procurement contracting or vendor-supply exposure.