SAN YSIDRO — Schools began welcoming back their students in mid-August amid colorful first-day-of-school traditions.
Students anxiously waited to meet their new teachers, while parents scrambled to make sure their kids had all they needed for the new academic year.
Among the first schools to go back was Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School in San Ysidro. Students there, as well as at Mater Dei Elementary in Chula Vista and St. Charles Borromeo School in Point Loma, gathered for their first day of classes on Aug. 14.
Most of the 41 elementary schools in the diocese started the new academic year between Aug. 19 and 21. The Catholic high schools went back even earlier, between Aug. 12 and Aug. 19.
The last to go back will be Our Lady’s School, where the start date was pushed back to allow time for the completion of campus renovations. The first day of classes there will be Sept. 4.
