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Apalachee High School is planning a “gradual reopening” the week of Sept. 23, the school announced Friday — more than two weeks after police say a student shot and killed four people at the Barrow County campus.

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ATLANTA (AP) — Students at Apalachee High School outside Atlanta will return to campus for half-days beginning next week, Barrow County school officials announced, after a Sept. 4 shooting that killed four people and injured nine others.

Barrow County school officials have worked out a plan for the opening of Apalachee High following the tragic shooting that claimed four lives.

Students will ease back in with half days at Apalachee High School in Winder. The area where the shooting happened will remain closed.

The deadly shooting at Apalachee High School which claimed four lives on Sept. 4, including assistant football coach and teacher Ricky Aspinwall, will never be far from the minds of the students and faculty that survived that horrible day.