Sevier School District Inc.

Sevier School District Inc., a U.S. local government school district located in Richfield, Utah, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering K–12 education and food-service programs to Native American and low-income students, with the vast majority of recent funding flowing through sub-awards from state intermediaries rather than direct federal grants.

The district operates overwhelmingly as a sub-recipient (73% of 126 total awards over the past several years) channeled through the Utah State Board of Education and the Utah Department of Workforce Services. Prime grant funding comes from two streams: recurring annual formula awards from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education for Indian Education Formula Grants to LEAs (received in July 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026, each running a fiscal year), and a multi-year project grant from the Bureau of Indian Affairs' School Operations division (awarded January 2025, running through January 2029) for BIE-Sevier School District Instructional Services. The formula awards and the BIA project grant constitute the direct federal relationship; dollar magnitudes are not specified in the source. Sub-award volume has grown sharply—from one award in 2022 to forty-seven in 2024 to thirty in 2025—reflecting flow-through of state-administered federal programs to the district level.

The sub-award portfolio is dominated by two federal funding streams. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service accounts for sixty sub-awards, nearly all routing through the Utah State Board of Education and funding National School Lunch, School Breakfast Program, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, and After School Program meals. The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for thirty-nine sub-awards, covering Title I flows, IDEA special education, and preschool special education. The Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, the Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Education, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs School Operations account for eleven, seven, and two sub-awards respectively. Combined dollar obligation across all awards (prime and sub) is $31.9 million.

The district operates in a Native American education and food-service context serving student populations eligible for federal Indian education and Title I funding. The recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal (one award reaching completion). The sub-award structure—primarily monthly or quarterly meal-program reimbursements and education-formula flows through state intermediaries—reflects the district's role as a LEA (local educational agency) passing through federal resources to school operations and nutrition services rather than as a federal contractor or grant-executing partner organization.