Photo gallery: School districts return for the new year

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Deer Lakes High school students (left to right) Gianna Sites and Kellie Strate pose for a picture on the first day of school, Aug. 25, 2021.

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Plum student Katie Adams 10, high fives the Plum Mascot Mustang as she arrives for her first day of school Thursday. Aug 19, 2021. Adams will attend the fifth grade at OՂlock Elementary.

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Plum students arrives for the first day of school Thursday. Aug 19, 2021, at Plum Junior High.

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Gabrielle Wade, of Arnold, adjusts the face mask on her son, Clint Bryant, 6, before he reports for his first day of first grade at H.D. Berkey Elementary School on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021.

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Ashley Pirozzi, of Arnold, takes a picture of her son, David Bagley, 8, at the sign outside H.D. Berkey Elementary School in Arnold on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021.

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Julie Turner, 6, of Arnold talks with her kindergarten teacher, Julie Erb, outside H.D. Berkey Elementary School on the first day of her first grade year on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021 as her mother, Candace Turner, looks on.

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Friends and third-graders Enzo Hutcherson and Jeremiah Evans chat Thursday on the first day of school at Kiski Area East Primary in Vandergrift.

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Kiski Area High School students Thursday on the first day of school. The school board voted to make face coverings and masks optional.

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Rayley Bowser, a fifth-grader at Kiski Area Upper Elementary, gets familiar with her first locker Thursday on the fher first day of school.

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Vandergrift Police Chief Joe Caporali greets Kiski Area East Primary students Kylie Ryan and Averie Carney Thursday on the first day of school.

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Kiski Area High School Lauren Hilliard and Addison Petrosky pose Thursday on their first day of ninth-grade.

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Fifth-graders at Kiski Area Upper Elementary School settle into class Thursday on the first day of school.

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Security guard Lee McIntire stands by as students get off the first bus to arrive for the start of the 2021-22 school year at Highlands Elementary School in Tarentum on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021.

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Parents wait to drop their children off for the first day of school at Highlands Elementary School in Tarentum on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021.

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“Welcome Back” was written in chalk on the stairs in front of Highlands Elementary School in Tarentum on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021.

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High school students arrive at Riverview Senior and Junior High School for the first day of school on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021 in Oakmont.

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High school students arrive at Riverview Senior and Junior High School for the first day of school on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021 in Oakmont. High school students arrive at Riverview Senior and Junior High School for the first day of school on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021 in Oakmont.

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Leechburg Area High School seniors and friends Thomas Burke and Tino DeCapite on campus Wednesday on the first day of classes.

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Leechburg Area School District superintendent Tiffany Nix greets high school students and sisters Sydnee and London Platt of Leechburg. Nix said the district has a 99 percent in-person back-to-campus return rate, with eight students selecting virtual learning. LASD enrolls about about 750 students.

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David Leech Elementary School students Saydee Suppers, Karlee Hill and Chloe Reed catch up Wednesday morning before heading into class on the first day of school.

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David Leech Elementary School kindergartner Ryder Kubla of West Leechburg leads his mom Brittany Kubla to the cafeteria entrance Wednesday on the first day of classes.

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Leechburg Area High School students Wednesday on the first day of school.

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Fifth-grade teacher Jennifer Turner settles her students in on the first day of classes Wednesday at David Leech Elementary School in Leechburg.

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Students at Dorseyville Middle School file off the buses for the first day of class on Aug. 24, 2021.

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Dorseyville Middle School students fill the entrance to the school on the first day, Aug. 24, 2021.

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Franklin Regional Teacher Daniel Hartman, greats students as they exit the school busses on the first day of school at new Franklin Regional Intermediate School for grades three through five. Monday Aug 23, 2021.

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Franklin Regional Teacher Abigail Davis leads her third grade class in the Pledge of Allegiance during the first day of school at the new Franklin Regional Intermediate School for grades three through five. 738 students attend the newly constructed school in Murrysville. Monday Aug 23, 2021.

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Students head toward the entrance of the newly constructed Franklin Regional Intermediate School for grades three through five. Monday Aug 23, 2021.

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Franklin Regional students exit busses at the new Franklin Regional Intermediate School for grades three through five. 738 students attend the new in Murrysville. Monday Aug 23, 2021.






























School districts across the region have returned to school over the past week or so. Here is a look as some of the kids returned for their first days.