Taholah School District 77

Taholah School District 77, doing business as Taholah School, is a U.S. local government entity and school district located in Taholah, Washington, that receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and as a sub-recipient through the Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction. The district does not hold federal contracts and operates exclusively within the federal grant space.

The district's federal grant footprint centers on three primary Department of Education programs. The Impact Aid Program (CFDA 84.041), Title VII, Section 7003 provides the largest single source of funding — a $2,208,206 project grant awarded October 1, 2025, running through September 30, 2031, to compensate for lost local property tax revenue resulting from federally connected children living on federal or Indian lands or with parents on active duty in the uniformed services. The Small, Rural School Achievement Program (formula grant) and Indian Education Formula Grants to LEAs (formula grant) constitute recurring annual awards, both managed by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. The district has received these three programs repeatedly across the past several years — multiple cycles of Small, Rural School Achievement Program and Indian Education Formula Grants awards in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026, and Impact Aid project grants in 2021, 2023, 2025, and 2026. Work is performed in Taholah, Washington.

As a sub-recipient, Taholah School receives pass-through funding from the Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction on federal education programs including Special Education IDEA Part B (Section 611), Title I Part A (general education), Title I Part C (migrant education), child nutrition programs reimbursement and administrative support, school improvement, and ESEA Consolidated Grant applications. Sub-awards span 2023 through 2026, with the highest concentration in child nutrition program support (thirteen awards from August 2023 through August 2024) and recurring annual cycles of Title I and IDEA-B awards.

Customer concentration is extreme — the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 64 of 86 total awards (100% coverage at the aggregate level). The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service places 18 awards, and the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services accounts for 3 awards. This concentration reflects the district's status as a rural school district dependent on federal support for students with federal eligibility.

Activity has grown from two awards in 2022 to eighteen in 2024, followed by a decline to eight in 2025 and three in 2026 to date. Only two awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure in that window — most impact aid and formula grant awards carry multi-year performance periods extending through 2027–2031.