Most schools in Newtown, Connecticut, will reopen today, four days after a mass shooting in which 20 children and seven adults, including the gunman, died.
Sandy Hook Elementary school, where the shootings took place, is to remain closed indefinitely.
Work on collecting evidence from the scene is expected to take some time because of the number of bullets fired by the 20-year-old gunman, Adam Lanza.
26 Christmas trees decorated with ornaments, stuffed animals and balloons have been lined up as a memorial to the victims. The children were all aged six and seven.
It was one of the deadliest school shootings in US history, prompting some lawmakers to call for tighter restrictions on guns.
School administrators around the country are also assessing their safety protocols.
Newtown police plan to have officers at the six schools scheduled to reopen today, trying to offer a sense of security to the students.
Newtown Police Lieutenant George Sinko acknowledged it may be difficult to ease the worries of the roughly 4,700 returning students and their families.
"Obviously, there's going to be a lot of apprehension. We just had a horrific tragedy. We had babies sent to school that should be safe and they weren't," Lt Sinko said. "You can't help but think ... if this could happen again."
Newtown High School Principal Charles Dumais, in an e-mail to parents, said schools in the district would open two hours later than usual, with counsellors available to students and their families.
While school officials have not yet decided when Sandy Hook students will resume their studies, the building that they will move into - the unused Chalk Hill School in the nearby town of Monroe - already showed signs of preparation.
On a fence opposite the building, a green sign with white lettering proclaimed "Welcome Sandy Hook Elementary!"
Police have warned it could take months for them to finish their investigation into the attack, which started when Adam Lanza killed his mother, Nancy, at home, before driving to the school armed with a Bushmaster AR 15 rifle and two handguns.
After shooting 26 people at the school, he turned his gun on himself when he heard police approaching.
More funerals are expected today, for victims including James Mattioli and Jessica Rekos, who were both aged six.
"It's still not real that my little girl, who was so full of life and who wants a horse so badly and who's going to get cowgirl boots for Christmas isn't coming home," Krista Rekos, Jessica's mother, told ABC News yesterday.
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