Riviera Independent School District

Riviera Independent School District, doing business as Kaufer High School, is a local government school district in Riviera, Texas that receives federal education grants as a prime recipient from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and as a sub-recipient of pass-through funding from the Texas Education Agency and other Texas state agencies. The district does not hold federal contracts and operates entirely within the federal grant ecosystem, with 56% of recent awards structured as sub-recipient allocations and 44% as direct prime grants.

The district's federal footprint centers on education and rural development programs. As a prime grant recipient, Riviera ISD holds five consecutive annual awards under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program (CFDA 84.358) from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, with awards issued July 1 of each year from 2022 through 2026 and completion dates running through September 2027. As a sub-recipient, the district has received allocations from the Texas Education Agency under Title I, Part A of the Every Student Succeeds Act (supplemental funding for low-income student achievement), IDEA Part B Formula (special education services for children with disabilities ages three through twenty-one), and the LIFT Add-On School Improvement PLC grant. The district also received a sub-award from the Texas Department of Agriculture under the 2024 Local Food System grant and COVID-era ESSER II and Texas COVID Learning Acceleration Supports (TCLAS) funding during 2021–2022.

Customer concentration is narrow and formulaic. The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services account for 95% of awards (33 and 6 awards respectively), with the Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service and Agricultural Marketing Service appearing once each. Activity is flat and consistent — four to five awards per year since 2022 — with only one award facing ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. Combined dollars obligated across all prime and sub awards total $3.7 million, reflecting the district's small to mid-sized rural school profile and the formula-grant structure of federal K–12 funding, which delivers restricted allocations rather than discretionary contract vehicles or large grant competitions.