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The Columbia Public School District is centered in Columbia, Missouri and serves much of Boone...

The Columbia Public School District is centered in Columbia, Missouri and serves much of Boone County, Missouri. The district is Accredited with Distinction by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. It served 17,307 students in 2008 making it the tenth-largest district in the state. The district includes nineteen elementary schools, three middle schools, three junior high schools, as well as the Columbia Area Career Center. Columbia Public Schools, which frequently experiences overcrowding problems (particularly at the high schools), plans to build a fourth high school are going to be carried out soon. They recently purchased 40 acres (16 ha) and received 40 more in a donatation, making a total of 80 acres (32 ha) for the new high school, which is hoped to be built soon because the schools are getting desperate for room—some classes have up to 35 kids or more. Also, the board plans to reconfigure the amount of transfers students make to another school in their time with the school district. The plan currently being sought is to change from four transfers (elementary, middle, junior, high) to three (elementary, middle, high).