POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. -- Some Cobb County students whose school was devastated by flooding headed back to class Thursday at different schools.

Clarkdale Elementary was devastated earlier this week after floodwaters inundated the school.

More than 440 students from Clarkdale will attend classes at two schools: Compton Elementary and Austell Intermediate, which are both in Powder Springs.

Cobb County school officials want to keep things as normal as possible for the kids despite extraordinary circumstances. The same teachers who taught the Clarkdale students all semester will go to those schools as well.

The district shipped extra books and supplies to the schools to accommodate the additional students. The district also dispatched buses to pick up about a dozen Clarkdale students who were forced to sleep at the Cobb Civic Center with their families, after floodwaters damaged their homes and devastated their school.

"It's a big tragedy for me and my kids right now," said Syreeta Jones, a parent whose three children attended Clarkdale.

Floodwaters forced out the Jones family from their home in Austell.

"It's very hard to go from something and then you have nothing," Jones said. "It's a good thing they're back in school. They adapt very well, so I don't think that'll be a problem."

Parents said their children are adapting to their new surroundings.

Zahiya Lahut told us her children, Nafisa and Mark Anthony, were in good spirits despite being uprooted. She said they were happy to hear they'll have their same teachers.

Lahut said it's time to pick up the pieces and move on.

"You have to keep pushing forward, especially with children. Have to move forward and do what you have to do," she said.