Plush School District 18

Plush School District 18, a local government school district located in Plush, Oregon, receives federal educational grant funding as a prime recipient from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and serves as a sub-recipient on special education and instructional programs funded through the Oregon Department of Education. The district does not hold federal contracts and operates exclusively within the federal grant ecosystem.

The district's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in Department of Education programs. All 43 awards in the source data flow from Education — 31 awards from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, 11 from the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, and one from Education broadly. As a prime recipient, Plush School District 18 holds five consecutive Small, Rural School Achievement Program formula grants, awarded annually on July 1 (2022 through 2026), each running through September 30 of the following year. The most recent prime award took effect July 1, 2026, with completion scheduled for September 30, 2027.

As a sub-recipient, the district receives pass-through funding from the Oregon Department of Education across multiple federal programs. Sub-awards flow under IDEA Part B 611 (special education, ages 6 to 21), IDEA Part B 619 (special education preschool), Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants, and the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary Schools Emergency Relief Fund (ARP-ESSER). Sub-award frequency has remained steady: the district received two to four sub-awards per year from 2021 through 2026, with the most recent sub-award dated August 6, 2026, for Supporting Effective Instruction State Grants. The combined dollars obligated across all 43 awards totals $570 thousand, reflecting the small-district rural-school scale typical of formula grant beneficiaries. One award reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. The district's federal activity has remained flat over the past five years (three to four awards annually), consistent with the predictable, recurring nature of elementary and secondary education formula grant cycles.