Valentine Elementary School District 22

Valentine Elementary School District 22, a U.S. local government school district serving Peach Springs, Arizona, receives federal grants as a prime recipient from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education for K-12 educational services in a rural, federally impacted community.

Valentine Elementary School District 22 operates exclusively as a federal grant recipient rather than as a contract prime or subcontractor. The district's federal footprint consists entirely of grants from the Department of Education, with all 40 of its recent federal awards issued by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. The district competes for formula and project grants that address the educational needs of rural districts affected by federal land ownership and enrollment of federally connected children.

The district's grant portfolio rests on two recurring Department of Education programs. The Impact Aid Program (CFDA 84.041, Title VII, Section 7003) provides ongoing support to the district as compensation for lost local tax revenue attributable to federal land ownership and federally connected student enrollment. Section 7003 of Impact Aid serves school districts that enroll at least three percent or 400 federally connected children in average daily attendance. Valentine Elementary School District 22 has received sustained Impact Aid awards through multiple project grants, including a $703,433 project grant awarded October 1, 2025, with ultimate completion September 30, 2031, and prior awards in February 2023 (completion September 30, 2028), October 2023 (completion September 30, 2029), and December 2024 (completion September 30, 2030). The Small, Rural School Achievement Program, also administered by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, provides formula grant support; recent awards under this program were issued July 1 annually in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026, with typical completion dates of September 30 in the following fiscal year.

Activity has remained relatively steady, with one to three awards per year over the past five years, producing a combined $7.3 million in obligated federal dollars across all 41 recent grants. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, reducing immediate recompete pressure. All work is performed within the district's operations serving the Peach Springs, Arizona community, with no subcontract or partnership component in the source record.