Sixth-grader Ailish Tucker turns around to talk to a classmate after eating breakfast on the first day of school at Loranger Memorial School on Tuesday. The cafeteria is filled with individual desks instead of tables so students can eat their meals at an appropriate social distance.

Sixth-grader Mia Perez, center left, sits in her group in the cafeteria during breakfast Tuesday, the first day of school at Loranger Memorial School in Old Orchard Beach. Tables were replaced with individual desks so students could eat their meals at an appropriate social distance.

Third-grader Madeleine Filitis, left, second-grader Emma Karnes, and pre-kindergartener Isabel Filitis walk hand in hand with a group families for first day of school Tuesday at Hall-Dale Elementary School in Hallowell.

Students arrive for the first day of school at Skillin Elementary School on Tuesday.

Students sit at desks set apart in Lori Gadreau's classroom at Loranger Memorial School in Old Orchard Beach on Tuesday.

Sheena Matthew helps kids with their spacial distancing as they arrive on busses at Skillin Elementary School on Tuesday.

Students keep their distance as they enter Skillin Elementary School on the first day back on Tuesday.

Students arrive for the first day of school at Bonny Eagle High School Tuesday.

Sixth graders begin to head inside on the first day of school at Loranger Memorial School on Tuesday.

A student sits at his desk in Lori Gadreau's math class on the first day of school at Loranger Memorial School on Tuesday.

Staff members begin having different cohorts of sixth graders leave the cafeteria after breakfast on the first day of school at Loranger Memorial School on Tuesday. The cohorts stay with one another during classes and meals.

The cafeteria at Loranger Memorial School is filled with individual desks instead of tables so students can eat their meals at an appropriate social distance on Tuesday.

A boy waits to be directed to his classroom after entering Skillin Elementary School in South Portland on Tuesday.

A sign outside the nurses office reminds students to wash their hands on the first day of school at Bonny Eagle High School Tuesday.

Sixth graders, Mia Perez, left, and Ailish Tucker, right say hello to a classmate on the first day of school at Loranger Memorial School in Old Orchard Beach.

Sixth graders, Mia Perez, left, and Ailish Tucker give an air hug to a teacher before the first day of school at Loranger Memorial School on Tuesday.

Jocelyn Battige, an ed tech at Loranger Memorial School, makes sure students stay socially distanced while walking down to the cafeteria for breakfast on the first day of school on Tuesday.

Students make their way down the now one way hallway on the first day of school at Bonny Eagle High School Tuesday.

Health Teacher Erin Bjorkdahl watches students wipe down their desks after she sprayed them with a disinfectant at the end of class on the first day of school at Bonny Eagle High School.

Students listen as their teacher, Lori Gadreau, talks about the plan for the first day of school at Loranger Memorial School in Old Orchard Beach. A portion of the sixth-graders and third-graders were present for the first day of the 2020-21 school year.