Valley Home Joint School District

Valley Home Joint School District, doing business as Valley Home Elem School, is a U.S. local government entity and school district operating as a prime recipient of federal education grants focused on rural school achievement. The entity has received recurring annual formula grants from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program since 2022, with no federal contract footprint and no involvement as a prime or subcontractor on federal service or supply contracts.

Valley Home Joint School District is headquartered in Oakdale, California, and operates as a public school district rather than as a commercial vendor. The district's federal relationship is limited to grant receipts under a single grantor agency. Across the past five years (2022–2026), the district has received two federal grant sub-awards and five prime grants under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program, a Department of Education formula-grant initiative. The five prime grants were awarded on July 1 in each of 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026, with ultimate completion dates between September 2023 and September 2027. A sub-grant award dated August 31, 2026, supports teacher and principal quality improvement and highly qualified teacher recruitment in the classroom; a second sub-grant dated September 1, 2025, from the Department of Education California focuses on improving student academic achievement by building state and local educational agency capacity.

The combined dollars obligated across all twenty awards (prime and sub) totals $303 thousand, reflecting the modest grant scale typical of formula grants to small rural districts. Activity is minimal and flat — one award per year in 2022, 2023, and 2024, then two awards in each of 2025 and 2026 — with no growth trajectory. The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 95% of the award count (19 of 20 awards). One award carries an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months, representing minimal recompete exposure in that window. The district operates as a prime recipient on 90% of its federal awards and as a sub-recipient on the remaining 10%, with no contracting or vehicle-based relationships and no teaming arrangements with federal contractors. For business development professionals at federal contractors, Valley Home Joint School District represents a public-sector customer with no procurement or vendor relationships and therefore no relevance to contractor competitive positioning, teaming, or sub-award opportunity.