COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Columbus City Schools Board of Education and superintendent provided an update on the closure and consolidation of multiple school buildings during Tuesday night’s school board meeting.

It’s the first major update from the district since board members voted on the closure of five school buildings in December.

Columbus City Schools Superintendent Dr. Angela Chapman spent time talking about each of the five schools during a presentation at the board’s meeting Tuesday.

She said Broadleigh and Moler elementary schools will both close after the upcoming 2026-27 school year. Students currently at Broadleigh could be sent to Eastgate, East Columbus or Fairmoor elementaries; students at Moler will go to either Livingston or Lincoln Park.

Those neighborhoods will have to get new boundaries to decide where each student will attend school.

“You’re closing one school, you have to redesign the boundary for that home school,” Chapman said. “We want to make sure that they have an opportunity to be involved in that boundary process because that boundary process will have a direct impact on them and their choices and their options for the following school year.”

Families will know by late November which school their students will attend in 2026. The superintendent said all the options are newer buildings than Moler and Broadleigh.

“The more robust programming that we want to offer our families and we can do that when we have more modernized spaces,” Chapman said.

Columbus Alternative High School will have a new site after the 2027-28 school year since the current site at McGuffey is being closed. The Buckeye Middle School building will also close at the end of the 2027-28 school year.

It’s still undecided where students at those schools will be housed. Chapman said more engagement will be done during the upcoming school year.

“There’s more time for discussion and involvement with the community, the Buckeye community and CAHS, so both of those school communities, they will be talking with them and spending time really better understanding the needs of the schools,” Chapman said.

For West Broad Elementary, the school board only agreed to close the building if a new school can be built in its place, but Chapman said funding is still up in the air.

Chapman said she understands that the realignment process means a big change for many CCS families. She said she wants those impacted to know this isn’t a process the district takes lightly.

“They are big decisions for the families, for the staff members and so we want to make sure that we are being very thoughtful and very intentional as it relates to the planning,” Chapman said.

The first phase of the realignment process is starting in the fall with Broadleigh and Moler schools.

Chapman said she will continue to provide frequent updates on the process and timeline at future school board meetings.