Mora Independent School District

Mora Independent School District, a public school system and local educational agency based in Mora, New Mexico, operates as a recipient of federal education and child development grants and as an occasional service provider to federal land agencies, with 63% of recent awards received as a direct federal grant recipient and 37% as a sub-recipient flowing through the State of New Mexico Public Education Department.

Mora ISD's federal footprint is concentrated in education and child nutrition programming. The District serves as the prime recipient on a $1.836 million Head Start (CFDA 93.600) project grant from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, running through December 31, 2026, which funds early childhood services including cognitive, physical, behavioral, and social-emotional development programming across the rural Mora area. The District has received successive formula grants from the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program in 2022, 2023, and 2025, supporting instructional resources and capacity building in small rural districts. The District also acts as a sub-recipient of Title I funding and school kitchen equipment grants flowing from the State of New Mexico Public Education Department, as well as Child Nutrition Program reimbursement claims submitted to the state under the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program.

The District's only identified federal contract award is a $300 thousand firm fixed price purchase order from the USDA Forest Service Region 3 (Southwestern Region) for land and facility use services performed in Santa Fe, New Mexico, awarded May 3, 2022 and completed May 21, 2022.

Customer concentration centers on education and child nutrition. Eight awards flow from the Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, four from the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, and three combined from the Department of Agriculture (Food and Nutrition Service and Forest Service). The District's combined obligated dollars across all awards total $52.2 million against a combined potential value of $300 thousand, reflecting the disproportionate scale of multi-year grant obligations relative to initially reported ceiling values. One award faces ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months.