Moscow Schools

Moscow Schools, doing business as Moscow Public Schools, is a U.S. local government school district headquartered in Moscow, Kansas that receives federal education funding as a grant recipient (32% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient on state-administered education grants (68% of recent awards). The district does not hold federal contracts or contract vehicles and operates exclusively through the federal grant system.

Moscow Schools acts as a prime recipient of formula grants from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education under the Small, Rural School Achievement Program. The district has received five successive annual formula grants awarded July 1 in each of 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026, with each grant running through the following September 30. These direct grants anchor the district's federal footprint and provide core funding for small rural school programs.

The district's dominant activity, however, flows through sub-recipient awards from the Kansas State Department of Education, which passes through federal funds to Moscow Schools under multiple federal grant programs. Of the 62 total awards in the source data (covering 2022 forward), 42 are sub-awards (68% of the portfolio), nearly all originating from Kansas State DOE as the prime grantee. Sub-recipient work spans block grants, Title I Migrant education, 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC), and other elementary and secondary education programs. The district has received 12 sub-awards in 2025 and 14 in 2026 to date, reflecting consistent flow-through funding tied to student enrollment and federal education entitlements. Department of Education and Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service account for 98% of all awards combined, with the Food and Nutrition Service sub-awards tied to child nutrition and related meal programs.

The district's federal footprint totals $1.7 million in combined dollars obligated across all awards in the source data. Only one award carries an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months (by October 15, 2027), creating minimal recompete exposure in the immediate term; the Small, Rural School Achievement Program awards are recurring annual authorizations rather than multi-year contracts subject to traditional recompete cycles. Moscow Schools operates as a recipient of federal entitlement and formula funding characteristic of small rural school districts, with no contracting capability or partnership footprint outside the federal grant system.