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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 Voters Likely to See $15 Million School Bond Issue in 2020

KBIA | By The Columbia Missourian

Published February 8, 2019 at 8:23 AM CST

The Columbia Public School District is getting ready to ask voters to approve a $15 million, no-tax-increase bond issue in April 2020.

The district’s Finance Committee met jointly with the Long-range Facilities Planning Committee to consider the plan Wednesday.

The district’s financial advisers from Piper Jaffray, Tom Goffoy and Matthew Courtney, said the goal was to avoid an increase in property taxes to service the debt.

Heather McArthur, the district’s chief financial officer, said Thursday that a final determination for allocating the $15 million has not been made. This will be an ongoing discussion with the Long-range Facilities Planning committee in the coming year.

However, part of the money may go toward a district-wide upgrade in security measures, including new cameras and bulletproof windows and doors.

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