Lahaina Intermediate School students were greeted with cheers and colorful signs by the faculty and staff Tuesday as it became the second public school in Lahaina to reopen since the Maui wildfires.

“My heart is overflowing seeing the faces of these kids coming in, them hugging each other and the staff greeting them,” Principal Stacy Bookland said in a videotaped interview distributed by the state Department of Education. “It has just been an overjoy for me. This is a long time coming, so we’re very happy to see everyone today.”

Media have been barred from the campuses of the three remaining Lahaina public schools as they reopen this week.

DOE officials said the students started their day with grade-level orientation assemblies followed by a rotating class schedule to meet all of their teachers.

Although 19 Lahaina Intermediate staff members “lost everything” in the disaster, Bookland said, “they have been so resilient. … They have persevered through all of this, and their first love is to their school and to our keiki, and they’re gonna rock it.”

Seventh grader Drew Briones said in the release that the return to campus after more than two months “felt really refreshing. I remember some old memories I had on this campus, and it just felt really good. It was awesome.”

Seventh grader Mariah Kauvaka said she looks forward to “making new friends, definitely creating good and fun memories that will last, and keeping my grades up and doing good in school.”

About 400 students attended Tuesday, the DOE said.

Enrollment for Lahaina Intermediate normally is around 658. Hundreds of students of all grades who have been affected by the Maui wildfires have shifted to different public, public charter or private schools; applied for the state’s virtual learning program; or taken other actions, according to the DOE’s progress report, at bit.ly/LahainaSchools ProgressReport.

The number of students in an “active contact not yet achieved” category is nine.

Lahainaluna High School reopened Monday. Students from King Kamehameha III and Princess Nahienaena elementary schools come back to school today, sharing facilities at Nahienaena until a temporary school site at Pulelehua near Kapalua Airport opens.