Sierra Plumas Joint Unified School District

Sierra Plumas Joint Unified School District is a small rural public school district located in Loyalton, California that receives federal grant funding as a recipient from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, operating primarily under formula grant programs rather than as a federal contractor or vendor.

The district is a U.S. local government entity structured as a school district, with no federal contract prime or subcontractor work and no participation in commercial contracting vehicles. Its federal footprint is grant-based only, reflecting the operational model of K-12 school systems receiving educational support and student-services funding through federal education programs administered by the Department of Education.

Customer concentration is nearly total: the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 21 of the district's 28 federal awards (75% of the portfolio), with the remaining awards scattered across the Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service, Rural Housing Service, and Food and Nutrition Service divisions, and the Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition. The $3 million total obligated across all awards reflects the modest fiscal scale of a rural district grant portfolio.

The district acts as a prime recipient for Small, Rural School Achievement Program formula grants awarded directly by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (a July 1, 2026 award with ultimate completion by September 30, 2027, and a July 1, 2025 award with completion by September 30, 2026). It also receives sub-grant funding passed through the California Department of Education, which serves as the prime grantee on awards targeting high-poverty school improvement, English language acquisition, special education services for ages 3–5, school nutrition program expansion and oversight, and pandemic response work. Recent sub-grant awards address teaching and learning in high-poverty schools, teacher quality improvement, English learner proficiency, career and technical education skill development, and pandemic preparation and response dating to 2022.

Activity has been episodic: one award in 2020, four in 2022 (pandemic-response cohort), three in 2024, two in 2025, and five in 2026. One award faces completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying minimal recompete exposure. The district operates as a recipient of educational and rural-development assistance rather than as a vendor or contractor; this summary serves business-development professionals primarily for exclusion-screening purposes and federal funding-landscape context rather than competitive or teaming opportunity assessment.