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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 Public Schools selects four candidates for superintendent position

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Published February 28, 2014 at 5:01 PM CST

Columbia Public Schools announced in an e-mail to staff Friday it decided on four final candidates to interview for the position of superintendent of schools. The Board of Education has not released the names of the candidates but will be interviewing them over several days to come.

The position of superintendent was left open following the announcement that superintendent, Chris Belcher, would retire at the end of this June. Superintendent Belcher had been considering this move since mid-December of last year. He has since accepted a position at the University of Missouri's College of Education. Starting September 1, he begins as an assistant teaching professor within MU’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis.

The Board of Education said after narrowing its choices from 18 to four candidates, it will make another announcement about the superintendent position after scheduling community forums.