Moore Independent School District

Moore Independent School District, doing business as Moore School Food Service, is a U.S. local government entity and school district based in Moore, Oklahoma (serving the Oklahoma City metropolitan area) that receives federal grants as a prime recipient focused on K-12 education and school safety programming. The district does not hold federal contracts; its federal engagement is entirely through direct grant awards and sub-awards from the Department of Education and Department of Justice.

Moore's federal grant footprint concentrates on three recurring programs. The Indian Education Grants to Local Educational Agencies (CFDA 84.060) anchors the bulk of prime grant volume — the district received formula grants of $681,093 (July 2023–June 2024), $685,700 (July 2025–June 2026), and $672,650 (July 2026–June 2027) from the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education to fund academic instruction, cultural programming, teacher professional development, and targeted support services for American Indian and Alaska Native students. The Impact Aid program (CFDA 84.041, Title VII, Section 7003) provides supplementary revenue to compensate for reduced property tax bases resulting from federally connected student enrollment; Moore received project grants of $132,924 (October 2025–September 2031) and prior awards dating to January 2022, with ultimate completion dates spanning through September 2030. In October 2025, the Community Oriented Policing Program at the Department of Justice awarded Moore $472,500 under the School Violence Prevention Program (CFDA 16.071) for a three-year period through September 2028 to implement evidence-based school safety improvements including coordination with law enforcement, officer training, metal detector and lock installations, emergency notification technology, and related security enhancements.

On the sub-award side, Moore functions as a sub-recipient under pass-through funding from the Oklahoma Department of Education and the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education. The district receives quarterly sub-awards for federal child nutrition program reimbursement (child meal reimbursement under the National School Lunch Program and related meal-service funding), with approximately 24 documented sub-awards between February 2023 and June 2026. Additional sub-awards flow through the Oklahoma Department of Education for Title IV, Part A (student support programs), McKinney-Vento (homeless student services), Title I (general elementary and secondary education), Title III (correctional education), Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Part B (special education), and Title II (arts and culture enrichment). Moore also received sub-awards from the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education for Vocational Education Basic Grants in 2024 and 2025.

The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education is the dominant customer, funding 45 of 68 documented awards (97% coverage of awards when aggregated with agriculture and interior). Combined federal dollars obligated across all 70 awards (45 prime grants and 25 sub-awards) total $51.2 million, with prime grants accounting for approximately 64% of the award count. Award volume trended upward from 2 awards in 2022 to 19 in 2024, then contracted to 7 in 2025 and 2 in 2026; only two awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure in the near term. Moore's federal engagement reflects a school district's statutory eligibility for federal education and school safety grants rather than competitive procurement — the district competes for formula grants and project grants under full-and-open categories available to all eligible local educational agencies serving Native American, federally connected, or at-risk student populations.