Warner School District

Warner School District, doing business as Warner Elementary School, is a U.S. local government entity and school district recipient of federal education grants from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE). Warner does not hold federal contracts; its federal footprint consists entirely of grant awards and sub-awards under education and child nutrition programs.

Warner is a rural South Dakota school district headquartered in Warner, South Dakota, that operates as a prime grant recipient for the Small, Rural School Achievement Program — a formula grant under OESE — and as a sub-recipient of federal education funding flowing from the South Dakota Department of Education. The district has received five consecutive annual Small, Rural School Achievement Program awards (fiscal years 2022 through 2026), each running from July through the following September. In its sub-recipient role, Warner draws federal dollars through the state education agency for Title I Basic (K–12 remedial instruction), Title IIA REAP (teacher quality and professional development in rural areas), Title IV (student support and academic enrichment), Perkins (career and technical education), the National School Lunch Program, and the Emergency Assistance to Non-Public Schools Program. This sub-award activity accounts for approximately 34% of Warner's total federal award count and reflects the school district's reliance on state pass-through funding mechanisms typical of rural K–12 education recipients.

Warner's customer concentration is almost entirely in education: the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education accounts for 26 of 29 total awards (90% of award count), with two remaining awards from the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service (child nutrition) and one from the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration. Combined dollars obligated across all federal awards total $1.1 million, reflecting Warner's scale as a small, rural district. Activity over the past five years has remained modest and flat — one or two awards annually from 2022 through 2023, rising slightly to four awards in 2024 and five in 2025, with one award in 2026. Only one award faces ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months (recompete window), presenting minimal turnover exposure for the district.