Photos from Uvalde: How a grief-stricken community prepared to send its children back to school

Adam Martinez and his son, Zayon, 8, at their home in Uvalde on Aug. 12, 2022, examine school supplies for the upcoming school semester. Zayon was present at Robb Elementary during the school shooting in May and will not be returning to in-person classes for the upcoming school year. (Credit: Evan L'Roy/The Texas Tribune)

When students return to school in Uvalde today, just 15 weeks after the deadliest school shooting in Texas history, 19 students and two teachers will not be present.

In just more than three months since the massacre, residents have sought to help children return to normalcy with familiar back-to-school rituals, tinged by grief.