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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.

Committee to recommend Plan B for CPS school boundaries

The Committee tasked with putting together a new plan for the boundaries of the Columbia Public School District has decided on its recommendation to the School Board.

After nearly a year of work drawing maps and gathering feedback from the community, the secondary enrollment planning committee has decided to recommend “Plan B” to the Columbia School Board. Committee Co-chair Darin Preis calls it a “middle ground” option.

 “You know we heard at public forums a lot of people either loved or hated both the A and C models, but most people were kind of warm to the model B, so that kind of told us that we had something to work with there,” Preis said.

Jan Mees was one of the two school board members on the 22-member committee. She explains the parameters used to draw up the map.

 “Plan B allows students once they enter a new intermediate school to stay with that same cohort of high school students through their high school years,” Mees said.

Mees says the committee did make some slight changes to the boundaries based on the feedback from a series of public forums in November and through the district’s website. She says those will be incorporated when the committee presents the recommendation to the school board in January. The map pictured above does not reflect those changes, and Asst. Superintendent Wanda Brown’s office says those new maps should be posted to the Columbia Public Schools website in the next few days.

Mees expects the board to pass the boundaries when it votes; likely at its February meeting. The new boundaries are needed to make way for Battle High School, the new school opening in Columbia in 2013.

Ryan served as the KBIA News Director from February 2011 to September 2023