Public Schools on Military Installations

Click here to view and download the Fact Sheet for the Public Schools on Military Installations program.

Activities may include the construction, renovation, repair, or expansion of public schools to address capacity and/or facility condition deficiencies as prioritized by a Secretary of Defense. The Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation will only invite Local Education Agency school projects if appropriations become available in any given year.  

Each invited school project is unique to the community it must serve and is evaluated on the basis of its long-term responsiveness to the condition and capacity problems that led to it being invited. Once invited, Local Education Agencies are to develop a project proposal that describes their proposed project, including how it addresses the condition and capacity deficiencies that placed the school on the Priority List, and how it complies with state and local design standards, educational specifications, and installation requirements.  For more details on program activities, please contact the Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation Program Activity Lead.

Supporting Key Military Missions and Promoting Community Development

Technical assistance for Public Schools on Military Installations project activities include:

• Project scoping assistance
• Assistance with planning and developing design requirements
• Providing lessons learned and best practices 
• Proposal and grant development guidance
• Facilitating communication with local military installations and/or other Federal programs
• Project management guidance
• Providing grants for planning, design and construction activities to address identified facility deficiencies
• General grant support

Local Education Authorities are invited to apply based upon their placement on the Deputy Secretary of Defense's Schools Priority Listing.

The relevant Assistance Listing numbers is:

12.600 Community Investment

Public Schools on Military Installations Orientation Slides May 2023

VBCPS Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and Emissions Reduction Plan 2019

K-12 Schools---owner guidance

Affordable Zero Energy K-12 Schools: The Cost Barrier Illusion

HVAC electrification guide

2011 Federal Funding Opportunity

2015 Federal Register Notice

See Terms and Conditions  for more information on specific grant policy and alignment to Federal regulations.

Examples
Discovery Elementary School – Arlington, Virginia – Net-Zero School