Teachers at Cedar Park Middle School -- who were recently hit by vandals -- are now feeling pinched.

Now the PTA is trying to help replace what was lost.

The students studying leadership in Arina Jordan’s classroom may be counting the days to summer break but they were still hard at work.

“How do you get confidence in yourself? Believe in yourself? Believe in yourself,” said Jordan to her students.

What's hard to believe is why their old classroom TV was broken and why there is finger-printing dust on a side window.

In April Jordan’s classroom was among 18 ransacked by vandals.

The damage was devastating.

Equipment, furniture and windows were smashed and interior walls were even knocked down.

It cost the school district $30,000 to fix - the repairs were done in a day and paid for by taxpayers.

“Our deductible is so high -- $25,000 --we just didn’t see filing any insurance claim, we just went ahead and did what we needed to do to come up with that $30,000,” said an LISD spokesperson.

The school district can only replace equipment that it owns, so teachers who lost personal property were stuck.

The vandals also hit at the worse possible time of the year for teachers to replace their supplies.

“We used our budget money to get everything we needed, and then -- it’s gone. The damage happened,” said Jordan.

“These are the things they use with the children, everyday,” said Kelly Schutze, with the Cedar Park Middle School PTA.

The support group has spent more than $500 helping teachers replace critically needed items to get them through the school year.

“Their paper, pencils, Kleenex, scissors, glue -- all that kind of stuff that people don’t even think about,” said Schutze.

But more is needed to help teachers like Arina Jordan prepare for the new school year. Donations can be made through the Cedar Park Middle School PTA.

The search for those who vandalized the school was still underway, and investigators said they have some good leads.

But the focus is not just on catching those responsible, but replacing what was lost.