[4] The district covers approximately 160 square miles (410 km2) and has pre kindergarten through 12 grade students enrolled.

[citation needed] On May 20, 2013, parts of Moore and neighboring Newcastle and southern Oklahoma City, were affected by an intense multiple-vortex EF5 tornado.

Seven third graders inside Plaza Towers' 2nd-3rd grade annex lost their lives when the structure's walls collapsed.

[5] On October 20, 2014, the district asked several employees and students who had been on a Carnival Cruise ship which had also been carrying a lab technician who may have come in contact with specimens from Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan three weeks earlier, not to return to school until the worker was cleared and there was no medical threat.

The Lab technician tested negative and the employees and students were allowed to return to school.