North Park School District R-1

North Park School District R-1, doing business as North Park Junior-Senior High School, is a U.S. local government entity based in Walden, Colorado, that receives federal grants as a prime recipient and sub-recipient across K–12 education and school nutrition programs. The district does not hold federal contracts and operates exclusively in the grant space, with 33% of recent awards held as prime recipient and 67% as sub-recipient flowing through the Colorado Board of Education.

The district's federal footprint centers on two dominant grantor agencies. The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 34 of 64 total awards (53% of volume) through the Small, Rural School Achievement Program, a formula grant that has flowed to North Park annually from July 2022 through July 2026 with rolling twenty-seven-month performance periods. The Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service accounts for 25 awards (39% of volume), consisting of sub-awards passed through the Colorado Board of Education under nutrition block grants covering school meal programs. The remaining one percent spans Forest Service and Rural Housing Service awards. These two agencies account for 95% of the district's recent award activity.

As a sub-recipient, North Park receives nutrition block grants in monthly or quarterly tranches from the Board of Education Colorado, including Nutrition Block 2323, 2324, 2425, and 2526 allocations, along with Title IA (school improvement), Title II (teacher quality), Title III (English language learner), Title IV (student support), and SCG (state capacity grant) sub-awards. A single Summer EBT sub-award in May 2024 represents the district's only nutrition-related departure from recurring block-grant structures. The prime Small, Rural School Achievement Program grants run through formula allocation directly from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, with no visible sub-award layering.

Activity has accelerated over the past three years, growing from one award in 2022 to sixteen in 2025 and eleven in 2026 year to date. The combined dollar volume across all sixty-four awards totals $892 thousand, reflecting the formula-grant and block-grant nature of the work — small, recurring allocations rather than large task orders or delivery orders. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating stable, rolling funding renewals across both the annual SRSAP grants and the multi-monthly nutrition block tranches. This profile reflects a small rural school district's standard federal grant dependency rather than a procurement-facing vendor relationship.