Online Enrollment for the 2025-26 School Year at Columbus USD 493 is now open! If you are enrolling a BRAND NEW student who has NEVER attended a school in the district, you can enroll them at this link: Brand New Student Enrollment.
If you are enrolling a RETURNING student who was here during the 2024-25 school year, you can enroll your student by logging into your PowerSchool Parent Portal. You can find that link here: PowerSchool Parent Portal. From there you can navigate to "Returning Student Registration" in the left pane and start your enrollment process. You may be asked to create a new account here to register even a returning student. This account will only have to be created once.
*If you are enrolling a brand new student but also have returning students, please enroll the returning students first in your Parent Portal -- then choose the blue circle with your initials at the top and choose "account" and then "students" in the left pane. From there you can add your new student. Once the student is added, please select the link here: Brand New Student Enrollment and choose your new student from the list.
If your student has previously attended the district but was not here during the 2024-25 school year, please contact the secretary at the school your student will be enrolling. Please note, the secretaries will not return to their offices until August 1st. The contact information is listed below:
Park Elementary (PreK-1st Grade) – JoLynn Hite 620-429-3905
Central Elementary (2nd Grade-6th Grade) – Melinda Mooney 620-429-3943
Columbus Jr. / Sr. High School (7th Grade – 12th Grade) – Johna Carter 620-429-3821
If you have a returning student along with a brand new student, you can add an additional student to your enrollment account by clicking the blue icon with your initials at the top right of the enrollment window, click account, click Student in the left pane and you can add a new student here.
*Please note that online enrollment cannot be done through the PowerSchool app, it has to be completed through a browser on a mobile device or computer.