Montgomery County Board Of Education

Montgomery County Board Of Education, a local government school district headquartered in Mt. Vernon, Georgia, receives federal funding as a grant sub-recipient (99% of recent awards) from education, agriculture, and public-safety grantor agencies, with no federal contracting activity. The district operates under the structure of a U.S. local government and school district, competing for grant funding rather than federal contracts.

The district's federal footprint centers on education and child nutrition programs funneled through state intermediaries and direct federal grant recipients. As a sub-recipient, Montgomery County Board Of Education draws funding predominantly from the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (179 sub-awards across the past several years), which routes National School Lunch Program, National School Breakfast Program, and related nutrition-reimbursement funding through the Georgia Department of Education to the school district on a recurring monthly or seasonal cycle. The district also receives sub-grant funding from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (30 awards), including Title I-A, Title II-A teacher quality, Title IV student support, and Title V-B rural schools programs; the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (15 awards), covering IDEA Part B special education flow-through, IDEA 619 for ages 3–5, and IDEA Part B parent mentor grants; and the Office of Career Technical and Adult Education (10 awards), distributing Perkins V career and technical education grants and professional development funding. Two direct prime grants anchor the district's independent federal footprint: a $499,109 project grant from the Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office under the Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Grants program (CFDA 16.710) awarded October 1, 2024, with ultimate completion September 30, 2027, focused on school violence prevention and security improvements; and a distance-learning project grant from the Rural Utilities Service awarded August 26, 2025, extending through August 26, 2027.

Activity has fluctuated substantially over the past five years — 59 awards in 2022, climbing to 64 in 2023, then declining to 31 in 2024 before rising to 44 in 2025 and dropping to 28 in 2026 through mid-August. The combined dollars obligated across all awards stands at $15.6 million, with only one award facing ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. The district's federal grant footprint is concentrated in K–12 education and child nutrition, with the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service and the Department of Education accounting for roughly 94% of recent sub-awards. The recurring, monthly or cyclical nature of nutrition program reimbursements (evidenced by the dense flow of National School Lunch and Breakfast Program sub-awards) reflects the district's role as the operational school jurisdiction implementing federal child nutrition policy rather than as a competitive federal contractor or prime recipient.