UVALDE, Texas -- Three and a half years after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas , the community honored the 21 victims killed in the tragedy at the "bittersweet" opening of a new school.

"Today, as we open the doors of this beautiful elementary school, we do so with reverence for the precious lives lost and with resolute confidence in the legacy we will build within it," Ashley Chohlis, the superintendent for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, said during the ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday.

The new school, Legacy Elementary School, a two-story campus totaling 116,000 square feet, opened on Friday, with classes beginning on Oct. 20. The new school is not located on the Robb Elementary property, which remains closed off with no immediate p

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