A Colorado school district said on Wednesday that it would drop a proposal to tear down Columbine High School, which has been dealing with growing threats and hundreds of curious trespassers since the 1999 massacre there.

In June, the Jefferson County Public Schools asked parents, students and others in the suburban school district that includes Columbine to weigh in on a plan to rebuild the school farther away from the road, where security officials could better control who entered the grounds.

Nearly 60 percent of those who replied to the district’s survey opposed the idea, and indicated they would not vote for a bond needed to pay for the $70 million project.

Some said the proposal was too expensive and would not solve the problem of so-called Columbiners, people obsessed with the April 1999 school shooting that killed 12 students and a teacher. Others said tearing down Columbine — even 20 years later — would be a capitulation to school shooters.

Jason E. Glass, the Jefferson County superintendent, said in an open letter on Wednesday that the district would instead try to strengthen the perimeter around Columbine to make it safer and more private.

“While Columbine High School is now arguably one of the safest schools in the world, the ‘unauthorized individuals’ problem at the school must be addressed,” he wrote.

Fears about Columbine’s enduring appeal to those fascinated by school shootings reached a fever pitch this April, in the days before the 20th anniversary of the shooting. At one point, law enforcement began an extensive search for an 18-year-old woman who they said had been infatuated with Columbine, and had flown to Colorado from Florida. She killed herself in the mountains west of Denver.

Other schools have wrestled with what to do with the buildings where mass shootings have occurred.

The school district in Newtown, Conn., demolished Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 26 people were killed in 2012, and built a new school elsewhere on the property.

At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla., a facility replacing the building where 17 people were killed last year is expected to open for the 2020 school year.

The proposal to replace Columbine High divided the tight-knit community of students and survivors of the attack.

While many Colorado residents are fed up with the morbid fascination around the Columbine campus, some survivors and victims’ families said that they still found meaning there and that their memories of hurt and healing still lay within Columbine’s concrete walls. Others said the tens of millions of dollars needed to pay for a new school would be better spent on other causes, like mental health treatment or community centers.

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