School District Of Wabeno Area

The School District of Wabeno Area, a U.S. local government entity and public school district based in Wabeno, Wisconsin, receives federal education grants as a prime recipient from the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, with additional sub-recipient allocations flowing through the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service. The district does not hold federal contracts and operates exclusively in the federal grant environment.

Wabeno Area's federal footprint is concentrated in K–12 education formula and project grants. As a prime recipient, the district holds grants under three primary programs: Indian Education Formula Grants to LEAs (annual awards), the Small, Rural School Achievement Program (annual awards), and the Impact Aid Program, Title VII, Section 7003 (CFDA 84.041), which addresses federally connected children and runs through September 30, 2031. A representative prime grant is the $897,239 Impact Aid award dated October 1, 2025, funding educational services to the district through September 30, 2031, with performance in Wabeno, Wisconsin. The district also receives sub-awards routed through the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction for IDEA Part B formula grants (special education), Title I Grants to Local Education Agencies (CFDA 84.010), the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). Additional mental health sub-awards flow through Wisconsin's Project AWARE program (CFDA 93.243, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, which accounts for 53 of 80 awards tracked (66% of award count). The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service supplies 20 awards, primarily NSLP and meal-program allocations. The Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, and the Department of Education itself together represent three awards. The 96% coverage across these five agencies reflects that Wabeno Area's federal footprint is almost entirely education and nutrition programming.

Activity has grown from three awards in 2022 to seventeen in 2025, with nine awards recorded through mid-2026. The district holds 52 prime awards (63% of total) against 31 sub-awards (37%), reflecting both direct prime recipient status for formula and project grants and downstream sub-recipient positioning for state-pass-through allocations. Two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete exposure. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $9.1 million, spread across a twenty-year award period beginning in 2006. The district's federal engagement is characteristic of rural and small school districts: formula-driven allocations for student population, rural achievement support, federally connected student supplementation, special education, and meal programs, with governance and compliance managed within the school district and educational support functions integrated into ongoing K–12 operations.