About a dozen classrooms were vandalized during a weekend break-in at Kimberly Elementary School in southwest Atlanta.
School supplies were thrown across rooms, snack and soft drink vending machines were damaged, glass was broken from windows, and paint was splattered on the floor in one room, Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones said.
The damage was discovered just before 6 a.m. Monday by a milk delivery man who called police after seeing cash registers on the floor when he arrived at the school.
Kimberly Elementary is temporarily located inside the Walter Leonard Parks Middle School building, just off I-85 on Windsor Street, while Kimberly’s regular building is renovated.
Two projectors and some other items may have been taken, Jones said, but that had not been confirmed by staff members. Among the school supplies strewn about the classrooms were notebooks, papers, hand sanitizer and water.
“All students and staff are safe,” Atlanta Public Schools spokeswoman Kimberly Willis Green said in a statement.
Police are continuing their investigation.
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