Yosemite Unified School District

Yosemite Unified School District, a U.S. local government school district entity, operates as a federal grant recipient in K-12 education and nutrition programs, receiving awards directly from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and from California state education agencies under federal pass-through grants. The district acts as a prime recipient on Indian Education Formula Grants to LEAs and as a sub-recipient on a broad portfolio of federal education and nutrition sub-awards from the Department of Education California and the California Office of Emergency Services.

The district's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in education and child nutrition programming. As a prime recipient, Yosemite has received Indian Education Formula Grants to LEAs annually from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education across five consecutive fiscal years (July 2022 through June 2027). As a sub-recipient, the district draws federal support through California pass-through mechanisms across six distinct federal agencies, with the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education anchoring 31 awards and the Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service accounting for 15 awards. The portfolio includes sub-awards for school meal programs (both breakfast and lunch services), teacher quality and school improvement grants, career and technical education programs, English language learner support, technology and digital literacy initiatives, and school infrastructure repair. Representative recent sub-awards include funding from the Department of Education California for high-poverty school improvement (May 2025, October 2024), school breakfast and lunch service programs (dated across 2024 through September 2026), career and technical education capacity (August 2024, September 2025), and a sub-award from Boise State University (July 2024) for process evaluation and case study research on school meal program implementation. The district also received sub-awards from the California Office of Emergency Services for specific infrastructure projects, including dirt roadway and creek embankment work at Coarsegold School (May 2025) and parking lot washout repair at Yosemite High School (October 2024).

The district's award activity has accelerated significantly in the past two years — one award in 2022, two in 2023, twelve in 2024, and nineteen in the first nine months of 2026 — reflecting increased federal pass-through funding from state education agencies. The combined obligated value across all fifty-five awards over the source period totals $5.6 million. Only one award faces completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure in that window. Sixty-five percent of the district's federal footprint consists of sub-awards, with the remaining 35% composed of direct prime grants, predominantly the Indian Education Formula Grant series. The district does not hold federal contracts or seats on federal contract vehicles; its federal engagement is exclusively grant-based.