A long line of cars filled with children clad in navy blue and burgundy backed up Thursday morning onto Progress Road. It was the start of the 2025-26 school year for schools in Baton Rouge and throughout most of the region.
“They like to bring them to school on the first day,” Progress Elementary Principal Shanelle Fernandez said. “We’ll get everybody home on the bus this afternoon.”
It was a longer car pool line than normal for another reason: Progress Elementary is bigger…