Rankin Independent School District

Rankin Independent School District, doing business as Rankin ISD, is a U.S. local government school district located in Rankin, Texas, that receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, with sub-award pass-through funding from the Texas Education Agency. The district does not hold federal contracts or contract vehicles and operates exclusively in the federal grants space.

Rankin ISD's federal footprint centers on two grant programs. As a prime recipient, the district has received five consecutive formula grants under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, with awards dated July 1 of 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026, running through September 2027. As a sub-recipient, the district has received fourteen sub-award allocations passed through by the Texas Education Agency, predominantly under Title I, Part A of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESEA) to support supplemental education for students from low-income families. Additional sub-awards include Texas COVID Learning Acceleration Supports (TCLAS) high-quality after-school programming, Emergency Relief Supplemental (ESSER II) COVID-19 pandemic response funding, and an Effective Advising Framework implementation coaching program. The combined dollar value across all federal awards since 2007 is $2.5 million, with the district serving only two distinct federal agencies across its entire federal footprint.

Activity has been flat over the past five years, averaging roughly three awards annually from 2023 through 2025, with only two awards recorded in 2026. Of the thirty-four total awards in the source (nineteen prime, fifteen sub), 97% are attributable to the Department of Education; the remaining award goes to the Office of Career Technical and Adult Education. One award reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete pressure. The prime-to-sub split is 56% prime and 44% sub, with sub-awards flowing through the Texas Education Agency as the intermediary grantor. Rankin ISD's federal engagement is limited to elementary and secondary education programming for a small rural school district; the district neither competes for nor holds federal contracts or enterprise IT vehicles.