Unified District No 338

Unified District No 338, a school district located in Valley Falls, Kansas, is a recipient of federal education grants from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education; the district operates as a prime recipient on Small, Rural School Achievement Program formula grants and as a sub-recipient of block grants and supplemental education funding routed through the Kansas State Department of Education.

Unified District No 338 is a U.S. local government entity structured as a public school district. The district holds no federal contracts and does not appear as a contract prime or subcontractor; its federal footprint consists entirely of educational grant funding. The district operates within two federal customer relationships: the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (24 awards across the portfolio) and the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (12 awards). Recent prime recipient work centers on the Small, Rural School Achievement Program, a formula grant program administered by OESE; the district received awards under this program on July 1, 2022, July 1, 2023, July 1, 2024, July 1, 2025, and most recently July 1, 2026, each running approximately fifteen months to completion. As a sub-recipient, the district receives block grant funding, Title I Low Income supplemental education funds, American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP-ESSER) awards, and education-of-low-income-students funding from the Kansas State Department of Education, which passes through federal education dollars as the prime grantee. Sub-recipient awards are densest in 2024 and 2025, with eleven block-grant sub-awards dated between July 2024 and July 2026.

The district's award activity has accelerated in 2024 and 2026 (six and nine awards respectively) after a baseline of two awards per year in 2022 and 2023. Combined federal obligations across all 36 awards total $949 thousand, reflecting the formula-grant structure and sub-recipient pass-through nature of the funding. Only one award has an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure in the near term. The district's federal engagement is characteristic of rural K–12 education recipients: formula-based entitlements tied to student demographics and school-size thresholds, supplemented by block-grant allocations and Title I targeting, with no procurement contracting footprint.