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Rural Education

Program Information

Popular name

N/A

Program Number

84.358

Program objective

To provide financial assistance to rural districts to carry out activities to help improve the quality of teaching and learning in their schools.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    No Current Data Available.

  2. 2017

    No Current Data Available.

  3. 2018

    No Current Data Available.

  4. 2019

    No Current Data Available.

  5. 2020

    No Current Data Available.

  6. 2021

    With FY 2021 funding, the Department awarded 47 RLIS grants to States and 4,255 SRSA grants to LEAs.

  7. 2022

    With FY 2022 funding, the Department awarded 47 RLIS grants to States and 4,210 SRSA grants to LEAs.

  8. 2024

    In FY 2024, the program provided grants to 49 States, the Outlying Areas, and the Bureau of Indian Education.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

34 CFR 76, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 85, 97, 98 and 99.

  1. VI, B, Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended.

Program details

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Child (6-15)
  • Education (0-8)
  • Education (9-12)
  • Local
  • Rural
  • School
  • Specialized group (e.g. health professionals, students, veterans)
  • Student/Trainee
  • Youth (16-21)

Additional resources