South Delta School District

South Delta School District, a U.S. local government entity and public school district based in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, receives federal education and nutrition grants as a sub-recipient through the Mississippi Department of Education and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, with no prime contract footprint.

The district's federal award activity is heavily skewed toward sub-recipient grants rather than prime awards — 98% of the 49 total awards in the recent period are sub-awards, with only one prime grant (a Project SERV violence-response award from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, dated February 5, 2024, with ultimate completion set for February 5, 2026). Customer concentration is dominated by nutrition and education funding streams. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service accounts for 29 awards (largely Child Nutrition Program allocations in both block and categorical-institutional-lunch forms), followed by the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education with 12 awards covering Title I Part A Basic Grants, Title II Part A Supporting Effective Instruction, Title IV Student Support and Academic Enrichment, and Title V Rural and Low-Income Schools programs. The Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services contributes five awards under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Part B program, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters Financial Assistance Awards division accounts for three disaster-assistance sub-awards (two public-assistance grants from 2023–2024 totaling roughly $115,000 combined).

Activity ramped sharply in 2024 (31 awards) from 4 awards in 2023, then contracted to 9 awards in 2025 and 5 awards in 2026 through the recent snapshot date. The combined dollars obligated across all awards total $5 million. All substantive funding flows through the Mississippi Department of Education as the direct pass-through grantee; South Delta School District's role is to administer and spend these allocations on student nutrition, special education services, teacher professional development, and academic support at the school-district level. The district does not hold federal contracts, does not sit on GWACs or IDIQs, and does not operate as a prime contractor or sub-contractor in the federal procurement marketplace — it functions entirely within the federal grant ecosystem as an eligible local educational agency receiving Formula and Project grants from federal education and nutrition programs.