Voluntown Board Of Education

Voluntown Board Of Education, a U.S. local government school district operating Voluntown Elementary School in Voluntown, Connecticut, receives federal grants as a prime recipient from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and as a sub-recipient from the Connecticut Department Of Education for child nutrition, special education, and literacy programs. The district is not a federal contractor and does not hold seats on contract vehicles; its federal footprint is grant-funded only, with 57% of recent awards flowing through the Connecticut Department Of Education as pass-through subawards.

The district's federal funding concentrates in three program areas. The Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education funds the Small, Rural School Achievement Program (CFDA not specified in source), with the district as prime recipient on formula grants awarded annually each July 1 for the preceding fiscal year — five consecutive awards from 2022 through 2026, with the most recent award issued July 1, 2026 for completion by September 30, 2027. The Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service funds child nutrition programming through the Connecticut Department Of Education, including the Child Nutrition Program Block Consolidated (the source does not provide CFDA numbers for these subawards), with sixteen documented sub-awards spanning 2022 through 2026. The Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services funds special education services, including IDEA Part B sections 611 and 619, extended support para-educator positions, and transition support activities, also flowing through Connecticut as the pass-through recipient. The district has additionally received sub-awards for American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP ESSER) reading intervention and Department of Agriculture Specialty Crops subawards for local food procurement.

Customer concentration sits entirely with the Departments of Education and Agriculture through state-level intermediaries. The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for eighteen awards, the Food and Nutrition Service for fourteen awards, and the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services for six awards, covering one hundred percent of the district's award footprint over the source period. Combined dollars obligated across all forty awards (prime and sub) totaled $1.1 million. Activity volume has been uneven — five awards in 2022, two in 2023, seven in 2024, three in 2025, and six in 2026 — with only one award (the current-year Small, Rural School Achievement Program grant completing September 30, 2027) facing ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months.