Summer vacation is here early for 1,500 Pike County students, many of them flood victims.

Johns Creek Elementary and Belfry Middle School will remain closed the rest of the year because officials say the buildings are not safe for students after flood damage.

School board members say there are too many students involved to try to move them to another school to finish the year.

Many of the students do not have homes after the floods either.

School officials would rather call off the year to help those their families get back on their feet.

Students at Johns Creek Elementary are looking for new clothes after flood destroyed their homes.

Parents say they could not send their children back to class right now.

School officials at Johns Creek and Belfry say they cannot take students now anyways.

Workers cleaned the mud and debris out, but say the buildings are unsafe and unhealthy for students due to damaged to floors, walls, and windows.

“Everything is gone. It's just not possible for them to come back, even if the school was safe,” Johns Creek Principal Kenneth Adkins said.

“Yeah, it makes me feel a whole lot better so you don't have to worry about the kids getting contaminated,” Jeanette Daniels said.

The closing means no CATS tests. Belfry Middle, who lost their booklets, is getting a waiver for no testing.

The CATS tests that were taken at Johns Creek, before the flood, will be scored and the rest waivered.

Teachers are focused on getting student flood victims' lives back on track.

“Anytime you lost instructional time, it does hurt the child, however, right now there are things more important to those children, they've lost their homes, many of them have,” Principal Adkins said.

They will spend their summer vacation starting over.

The superintendent says both schools will undergo construction, renovations, and cleaning all summer to make schools safe again for the next school year.