Oskaloosa Public Schools

Oskaloosa Public Schools, doing business as Oskaloosa Elementary School, is a U.S. local government school district headquartered in Oskaloosa, Kansas, that receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient and sub-recipient from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service. The district does not hold federal contracts and operates entirely within the grant economy — 49% as a prime grant recipient and 51% as a sub-recipient of pass-through funding from state intermediaries.

The district's federal award footprint centers on two grant programs. The Small, Rural School Achievement Program (SRSAP) is a formula grant supporting rural schools; Oskaloosa has received awards in July of 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026, with completion dates ranging from September 2023 to September 2027. The Impact Aid Program, Title VII, Section 7002 is a project grant addressing the fiscal impact of federal property or activities on local school districts; the district holds five such awards, with ultimate completion dates extending from September 2027 through September 2031, the most recent awarded on October 1, 2025. The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education is the sole direct grantor for both programs.

Oskaloosa also receives sub-grant awards from the Kansas State Department of Education, which passes through federal funding as block grants and Title I Low Income allocations. The sub-award stream is frequent and distributed across the calendar year — the source lists 41 sub-awards dating from August 2022 through September 2026, with the majority categorized as block grants and two explicitly tagged as Title I Low Income or Education of Low Income Students allocations. This sub-recipient role channels education formula and project funding into the district's operational budget.

Federal customer concentration is complete: the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 46 awards and the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service accounts for 35 awards across the 81-award portfolio. The combined dollars obligated across all awards in the source total $3.6 million over the award history. Activity has grown modestly in recent years — four awards in both 2022 and 2023, then thirteen in 2024 and fourteen in each of 2025 and 2026. Only one award has an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal near-term recompete exposure. The district's federal funding role is stable, recurring, and tied to formula-driven rural-school and student-poverty allocations rather than competitive procurement.