At Hoover High School Monday morning, more than a dozen students unloaded from a Beeline bus and walked into the quad to greet friends, look up their classrooms and find their lockers.
Across Glendale Unified, roughly 26,000 students were going through their own routines for the first day of school.
At Hoover, it was Denice Guerrero’s first day as a junior.
“Time flies,” she said.
As a member of the school’s choir, Denice said she had recently joined Hoover’s Dolce Melodia performance choir, and was looking forward to traveling with the choir outside of Glendale later in the year.
As a sophomore, she decided on studying psychology in college, and she knows the new school year will entail a series of academic challenges.
“This year’s going to be harder,” she said. “I’m going to have to work my butt off because I want to succeed.”