Welcome to the Columbia Local School District

HISTORY OF COLUMBIA SCHOOLS FACILITIES

A little over 200 years ago, Bela Bronson opened his log cabin for schooling. For the next 85 years, Columbia’s children would be educated in seven schools scattered throughout the township, including a sandstone building on Osborne Road, brick buildings on South Boone and Akins Roads, and in 1877, a 30 foot by 40 foot brick building on the southeast corner of West River and Royalton Roads, costing $6,000. The upstairs was used as a school, the downstairs as the Town Hall. This building is destroyed by a fire “of suspicious origin” in 1895. Read More...

Special Board of Education Meeting

At a Special Board of Education meeting held on February 6, 2010, your Board of Education declared the necessity of submitting to the electors of the Columbia Local School District the single question of the issuance of school facilities improvement bonds in the aggregate principal amount of $6,000,000 and the levy of an additional 1.25 Mill tax to provide funds for the acquisition, construction, enlargement, renovation, and financing of general permanent improvements.

Please continue to check this website for updates. Information will be posted on this main page as well as in the Raider Resources and Treasurer's sections. As always, if you have any questions or concerns, please call Superintendent Graig Bansek at 440/236-5008.

Copopa Costs

…and the hits keeping coming!!!!

The following costs are associated with Copopa Elementary since August, 2009.

All of these are temporary fixes to maintain the building.

1	EA Group: Air quality testing	2009	$2,953.75

2	Service Master: 1921 basement cleanup in August	2009	$2,057.04

3	SteriTec Systems: Clean classroom	2010	$4,500.00

4	Armour Applied Science: Testing of classroom, consulting and decipher air quality testing.	2010	$5,925.00

5	Amerispec: Basement testing	2009	$735.00

6	Construction and Maintenance Management: 3 year Asbestos Abatement Plan.	2010	$3,120.00

7	Cleveland Waterproofing Inc.: Moisture problems in basement, downspouts, gutters and drain lines.	2010	$5,000.00
			Estimated

8	Honeywell: Univents (heating system) need Repaired.	2010	$14,000.00
			Estimated

9	CMM: Asbestos Abatement in old boiler room	2010	$1,040.00

10	CMM: Asbestos Abatement in operating boiler room.	2010	$1,300.00

11	Precision: Patch and repair of mechanical piping in old boiler room.	2010	$3,614.00

12	Precision: Patch and repair of mechanical piping in operating boiler room.	2010	$4,798.00

Total Costs as of February 4, 2010: $49,042.79

Remaining Unencumbered Funds in the Permanent Improvement Account: $67,870.87

When account hits $0.00, all funds will be deducted from operating funds.

This could result in loss of services for students and staff in the near future.

FREE OR REDUCED-PRICE SCHOOL MEALS

Children need healthy meals to learn. The Columbia Local Schools offer healthy meals every school day. Lunch costs $2.50 at Copopa Elementary, and $2.75 at Columbia Middle and High Schools.

Your children may qualify for free meals or for reduced-price meals. Reduced price is 40¢ for lunch.

Children in households getting Food Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly the Food Stamp Program) or Ohio Works First (OWF) and most foster children can get free meals regardless of your income. Also, your children can get free or reduced-price meals if your household income is within limits on the Federal Income Guidelines.

Applications for free or reduced-price meals are available from all school offices. If you have any questions or need help, call Pat Cieslak, Secretary to the Superintendent at 440/236-1213.