Unified School District NO. 454

Unified School District NO. 454, doing business as Burlingame School District, is a rural Kansas school district that receives federal formula grants and project grants as a prime recipient from the Department of Education and the Department of Justice, and receives subordinate block grants and Title I awards as a sub-recipient through the Kansas State Department of Education. The district holds no federal contracts and operates exclusively in the grant space, with 61% of recent awards routed through state intermediation and 39% as direct prime grants.

Burlingame School District is a U.S. local government entity (school district) located in Burlingame, Kansas, serving a 1A district with limited enrollment and constrained local funding. The district's federal grant footprint centers on two primary programs. The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education has awarded the district six formula grants under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program—awards issued July 1 in each of 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026, with completion dates running through September 30, 2027. The Community Oriented Policing Program awarded a project grant on October 1, 2023, with ultimate completion on September 30, 2026, directed at campus security improvements including reconfigured, alarmed entry points and resource officer housing to address school violence risks in a facility that houses infants through high school students under a single roof.

The district's sub-recipient work flows entirely through the Kansas State Department of Education, which has passed down 33 block grants, Title I Low Income awards, Title I Part A Basic Grants to LEAs, and education-of-low-income-students funding between 2022 and July 2026. Sub-awards accelerated in frequency beginning in 2024, with multiple block grants and targeted Title I sub-awards issued in 2024, 2025, and 2026—the most recent batch dated July 7, 2026.

Customer concentration is extreme and bimodal: the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (28 awards) and the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (25 awards) account for 100% of the award count, covering the full span of 54 awards in the source data. The Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Program represents one outlier award. Combined dollars obligated total $2.2 million across all federal sources over the entire award history, with no individual award dollar magnitudes specified in the source. Activity has grown from a baseline of three awards per year in 2022 and 2023 to ten to eleven awards per year in 2024, 2025, and 2026. Only one award (the October 2023 Community Oriented Policing grant) faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, posing minimal near-term recompete exposure.