#### Michael C. LIDDELL, a minor, by Minnie LIDDELL, his mother and next friend; Kendra Liddell, a minor, by Minnie Liddell, her mother and next friend; Minnie Liddell; Roderick D. LeGrand, a minor, by Lois LeGrand, his mother and *816next friend; Lois LeGrand; Clodis Yarber, a minor, by Samuel Yarber, his father and next friend; Samuel Yarber; Earline Caldwell; Lillie Caldwell; Gwendolyn Daniels; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; United States of America; City of St. Louis, Plaintiffs, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CITY OF ST. LOUIS; John P. Mahoney, President, Board of Education of the City of St. Louis; Penelope Alcott, a member of the Board of Education; Marjorie R. Smith, a member of the Board of Education; Earl E. Nance, Jr., a member of the Board of Education; Thomas F. Bugel, a member of the Board of Education; Louis P. Fister, a member of the Board of Education; Nancy L. Hagan, a member of the Board of Education; Earl P. Holt, III, a member of the Board of Education; Shirley M. Kiel, a member of the Board of Education; Gwendolyn A. Moore, a member of the Board of Education; Dr. Joyce M. Thomas, a member of the Board of Education; Rufus Young, Jr.; Julius C. Dix; David J. Mahan, Interim Superintendent of Schools, Defendants, Ronald Leggett, St. Louis Collector of Revenue, Defendant, State of Missouri; Mel Carnahan, Governor of the State of Missouri; Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Attorney General; Bob Holden, Treasurer; Richard A. Hanson, Commissioner of Administration; Robert E. Bartman, Commissioner of Education; Missouri State Board of Education; Roseann Bentley, Member of the Missouri State Board of Education; Raymond McCallister, Jr., member of the Missouri State Board of Education; Susan D. Finke, member of the Missouri State Board of Education; Thomas R. Davis, member of the Missouri State Board of Education; Gary M. Cunningham, member of the Missouri State Board of Education; Rebecca M. Cook, member of the Missouri State Board of Education; Sharon M. Williams, member of the Missouri State Board of Education; Peter F. Herschend, member of the Missouri State Board of Education; Jacqueline D. Wellington, member of the Missouri State Board of Education, Defendants-Appellees, Special School District of St. Louis County; Affton Board of Education; Bayless Board of Education; Brentwood Board of Education; Clayton Board of Education; Ferguson-Florissant Board of Education; Hancock Place Board of Education; Hazelwood Board of Education; Jennings Board of Education; Kirkwood Board of Education; LaDue Board of Education; Lindbergh Board of Education; Maplewood-Richmond Heights Board of Education; Mehlville Board of Education; Normandy Board of Education; Parkway Board of Education; Pattonville Board of Education, Defendants, Ritenour Board of Education, Defendant-Appellant, Riverview Gardens Board of Education; Rockwood Board of Education; University City Board of Education; Valley Park Board of Education; Webster Groves Board of Education; Wellston Board of Education; St. Louis County; Buzz Westfall, County Executive; James Baker, Director of Administration, St. Louis County, Missouri; Robert H. Peterson, Collector of St. Louis County “Contract Account,” St. Louis County, Missouri, Defendants, St. Louis Teachers’ Union, Local 420, AFT, AFL-CIO. Intervenor.

No. 93-1611.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Submitted March 8, 1994.

Decided June 9, 1994.

*817Mark Bremer, St. Louis, MO, argued John Gianoulakis and Mark J. Bremer, on the brief, for appellant.

Michael Fields, Jefferson City, MO, argued Michael J. Fields, Bart A. Matanic and John J. Lynch, St. Louis, MO, on the brief, for appellee.

Before McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge, HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and FAGG, Circuit Judge.

HEANEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

The Ritenour School District appeals from a decision of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri holding that Ritenour is not entitled to any portion of the cost of completing the renovation of Bu-der Elementary School. Ritenour reopened Buder in 1986, at a cost to it of $486,000, to accommodate voluntary transfer students from the St. Louis School District. At that time, the State objected to reimbursing Ri-tenour for this payment and appealed to this court. We held that under the terms of the settlement agreement covering this case, the State was obligated to reimburse Ritenour fifty-five percent of the capital costs involved in reopening the school, or $267,300. *Liddell v. Board of Educ.,*839 F.2d 400, 405 (8th Cir.), *cert. denied,*488 U.S. 825, 109 S.Ct. 74, 102 L.Ed.2d 50 (1988) *(.Liddell XIV).*

In 1990 Ritenour’s voters passed a $30 million bond issue for the capital improvement of all its schools. Ritenour now seeks partial reimbursement from the State for the cost of renovating Buder. Ritenour requests reimbursement in the amount of $1.72 million (based on the fifty-five percent ratio approved in *Liddell XIV)*or at a minimum, for $813,126 (based on the current twenty-six percent ratio of elementary transfer students at Ritenour).

On March 8, 1994, we remanded the matter to the district court with directions to it to set forth in some detail the reasons for its denial and to submit to this court amended findings and conclusions. 20 F.3d 324. The district court has now done so. After a careful review of the district court’s amended findings and order, we affirm for the reasons stated by the district court,