Fort Moore children are zoned to Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools for grades K-8.

[4] Any Fort Moore pupil, however, may attend Muscogee County schools if their parents wish, as per House Bill 224.

Superintendent Dr. William Henry Shaw testified that segregation was a "long and universal custom" and that abandoning it would "injure the feelings and physical well-being of the children."

When the federal court case U. S. v. Jefferson County Board of Education ruled that teaching staffs must also be integrated, the district agreed to assign at least two teachers who would be in the racial minority to the faculty of every school.

Both teachers and students considered the goal of this time period to be more focused on survival than on education.