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Below the overview of the district are links to KBIA's coverage of Columbia 93 district schools, updated as more stories are published. Columbia 93 at a glanceThe Columbia 93 school district currently includes 32 different schools. In 2014, the district had a k-12 enrollment of 17,204 students, which is 2% of the total k-12 enrollment for the state. Enrollment has been slightly increasing in recent years, 2% since 2011. While a small percent, that amounts to almost 400 more students. There have also been major re-drawing of attendance areas with the addition of Battle High School. Middle school attendance areas shape high school boundaries 00000178-cc7d-da8b-a77d-ec7d2f9e0000The changes have affected all schools in the district, including causing high school attendance to increase and overcrowding at one middle school at least.

Columbia School Board approves budget, discusses suicide prevention policy

Meiying Wu
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KBIA

The Columbia School Board unanimously approved the 2018-2019 fiscal year budget for Columbia Public Schools on Monday night. It will go into effect on July 1.

The board has been fine-tuning the budget in previous meetings, and it was approved Monday without further discussion.

The budget increased more than 13 percent over last year’s budget, owing to increased salaries for employees and funds being put away for future building projects like the new middle school planned for Sinclair Road. The new middle school is supposed to open in fall 2020.

Even though the district will spend more money next year, revenues from the state are expected to increase and offset the extra expenditures.

The budget is also projected to save about $9 million, which will be ...

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