Voters in the St. Louis County School district have narrowly approved an $78.8 million bond measure, despite overwhelming opposition in much of the district's northern portion.

The final vote totals will be posted here later today. But the measure passed by approximately 250 votes out of over 6,300 votes cast.

The measure was heavily-defeated in northern St. Louis County. Voters in Cook and Orr rejected by a 2-1 margin the district's plan to close their schools and build a new one north of Cook. Voters in Tower rejected the district's plan to close their high school and bus students to Babbitt by a 9-1 margin.

But that opposition was overcome by strong yes votes in the south half of the district and in the Babbitt area, which was the only of the cities in the district's north that retained its school under the plan.