Ruthven-Ayrshire Community School District

Ruthven-Ayrshire Community School District, a local government school district based in Ruthven, Iowa, is a federal grant recipient that participates in U.S. Department of Education formula grant programs supporting rural and small-school achievement; the district does not hold federal contracts and serves as a prime recipient on federal grants with limited sub-award activity.

The district's federal footprint centers entirely on the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, which accounts for 100% of its twenty-two recorded federal awards across the past five years. The district holds nineteen prime grant awards (86% of activity) and three sub-awards (14%). Prime activity consists of recurring participation in the Small, Rural School Achievement Program as a formula-grant recipient, with annual awards issued on July 1 in each of the years 2022 through 2026; the most recent award covers the performance period July 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027. Sub-award activity routes through the Department of Education Iowa as the prime grantee, with the district receiving Title I Grants to Local Education Agencies (which may include Title I, Title I Delinquent, and Title I School Improvement Section 1003 designations) and a Comprehensive Literacy Development Project sub-award. The district's combined dollar obligation across all twenty-two awards totals $607 thousand, reflecting the modest scale typical of rural school-district formula grants. A single award reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure in the near term. The district's federal activity remains stable year to year, with one award in both 2022 and 2023, three awards in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026. As a U.S. government entity and local school district, Ruthven-Ayrshire does not operate in the federal contractor competitive space and does not pursue set-aside or vehicle-based procurement; its engagement with federal funding is limited to direct appropriations flowing through Department of Education grant programs serving rural schools.