Turner County Board Of Education

Turner County Board of Education, a U.S. local government entity and public school district headquartered in Ashburn, Georgia, receives federal grants as a prime recipient and sub-recipient, operating exclusively in the education and rural development grant space rather than as a federal contractor. The district serves 1,153 students across three schools (elementary, middle, and high school) in rural Turner County, Georgia, and does not hold contract vehicles or prime contract awards.

The district's federal work splits sharply between prime grants (2% of awards, 7 total) and sub-grants (98%, 310 awards). As prime recipient, Turner County Board of Education holds two recent grants: a $862,270 Department of Agriculture Rural Utilities Service award under the Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grants program (CFDA 10.855) issued September 23, 2025, funding distance learning infrastructure and services through September 23, 2027; and a $435,889 Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Program grant awarded October 1, 2023, and completing September 30, 2026, supporting school security infrastructure improvements including badge-access control systems and classroom door-locking mechanisms across all three district schools.

The overwhelming majority of the district's federal activity flows through the Georgia Department of Education as prime grantee. Sub-grant awards (310 items across the source snapshot) span education programs including the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program (recurring monthly reimbursements), Title I-A academic improvement grants, Title II-A teacher quality programs, IDEA special education flow-through funding, Perkins V career and technical education grants, Title IV student support programs, and ESSER III-ARP emergency relief allocations. Additional sub-awards route through the Department of Education Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, the Office of Career Technical and Adult Education, and the Health Resources and Services Administration.

Customer concentration is extreme and static: 95% of awards derive from three Department of Education offices (Elementary and Secondary Education accounting for 45 awards, Career Technical and Adult Education and Special Education each with 11 awards) and the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (233 awards, predominantly monthly NSLP and breakfast program reimbursements). Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $31.3 million. Activity declined from 80 awards in 2023 to 34 in the most recent partial year (2026 year-to-date), though this decline reflects the monthly cadence of recurring nutrition program sub-awards rather than loss of core education funding. One award faces ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months (the school security project closing September 30, 2026).