West Franklin USD 287

West Franklin USD 287, doing business as K-12 Public School District, is a local government school district entity headquartered in Pomona, Kansas, that receives federal education and nutrition grants as a prime recipient from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service. The district does not hold federal contracts and operates exclusively in the grant-recipient role, both as a direct prime recipient of formula and project grants and as a sub-recipient of block grants and categorical education funding flowing through the Kansas State Department of Education.

The district's federal footprint centers on two grant programs with consistent annual awards. The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education has issued ten prime grants across the Small, Rural School Achievement Program (formula grants awarded July 1 of each year from 2022 through 2026, with ultimate completion dates ranging from September 30, 2023 to September 30, 2027) and the Impact Aid Program, Title VII, Section 7002 (project grants awarded in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026, with ultimate completion dates extending through September 30, 2031). The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service accounts for thirty sub-awards flowing through the Kansas State Department of Education, primarily as block grants and categorical Title I Low Income funding distributed to the district throughout 2022 through 2026. The Office of Elementary and Secondary Education represents 41 awards (100% coverage across the top two agencies), with the Food and Nutrition Service representing 30 sub-awards, reflecting a dual-customer structure with perfect concentration across federal K-12 education and nutrition assistance channels.

Activity has grown incrementally over the period captured in the source — four awards in 2022, five in 2023, thirteen in 2024, and eleven awards each in 2025 and 2026. The combined dollars obligated across all seventy-one prime and sub awards total $2.7 million. Only one award faces ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months (the Small, Rural School Achievement Program formula grant completing September 30, 2026), leaving the district's remaining federal education and Impact Aid awards with extended performance periods running through 2027–2031 and therefore minimal recompete exposure in the immediate window. The district operates as a near-equal prime-to-sub split (49% prime, 51% sub), with prime work anchored to direct formula and project grants from the federal government and sub work consisting of block grants and categorical education funds passed through the state education agency.