Trinity Center Elementary School

Trinity Center Elementary School, a local government school district located in Trinity Center, California, receives federal formula grants from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program as a prime grant recipient. The district does not hold federal contracts and does not operate as a subcontractor to federal primes; it receives grant funding directly and acts as the grant recipient entity rather than a vendor selling goods or services to the federal government.

Trinity Center Elementary School's entire federal footprint consists of Department of Education formula grants. The district has received nineteen prime grant awards under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program since 2007, accounting for 95% of all federal awards in the source data, with a single sub-grant award recorded as of August 31, 2026. The sub-grant award references academic achievement strategies including improving teacher and principal quality and increasing the number of highly qualified teachers in the classroom. The district concentrates exclusively on one federal customer — the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education — which accounts for all nineteen awards in the source data.

The Small, Rural School Achievement Program awards follow an annual cycle. The district received formula grants on July 1 of each year from 2022 through 2026, with ultimate completion dates falling between September 30 of the following year and September 30, 2027. The most recent award was issued July 1, 2026 with completion scheduled for September 30, 2027. Over the past five years, the district has received one award per year in 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025, and two awards in 2026. Combined dollars obligated across all twenty awards total $364 thousand. One award (the most recent) carries an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months. The district's federal grant activity reflects a small rural school's access to dedicated formula-grant funding rather than competitive procurement or service-delivery contracting; the grant structure is direct pass-through to a public school entity rather than a federal vendor relationship.