Atlanta police are trying to determine how a child was badly burned Monday morning.

The girl, who is about 8 years old, showed up at Burgess-Peterson Academy on Clifton Street with “significant burns to her hand,” police spokeswoman Kim Jones said.

She said the girl was taken to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Hughes Spalding for treatment.

An Atlanta Public Schools spokesperson told Channel 2 Action News that the girl did not get burned on campus or on the bus to school.