Evergreen High prepares for students to return to class after Colorado school shooting

Evergreen High School is preparing for students to return to class after a Colorado 16-year-old shot and severely injured two of his classmates last week.

Jeffco Public Schools says teachers will return at the start of next week and students will come back on Thursday and Friday.

There will be mental health support for students and staff and stronger safety measures will be in place.

The full return-to-class plan will be released on Sunday night, but in a letter to the school community, Principal Skyler Artes said there will be information sessions for parents on Monday. On Wednesday there will be an open house and walkthrough for students and parents.

Facilities workers have doing maintenance on the building since classes were canceled following the shooting and while classes stayed on hiatus this week. Floor tiles were replaced in some areas and other areas also got some new carpet.

"For the most part, our school looks just as it did at the start of the year," he wrote in his letter.

The principal said the school's goal with the restart of classes next week "is to provide steady, compassionate spaces for healing and information."

The shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Learn more about the school restart plan at evergreen.jeffcopublicschools.org.