Lobby de Uvalde Elementary School was closed on Monday by Principal Mandy Gutierrez (Image: Reuters/Getty Images)

The principal of an elementary school in Texas took a vacation after the shooter killed 19 children and two teachers were reportedly responsible for failing to repair a broken lock on campus.

According to attorneys, Uvalde Robb Elementary School principal Mandy Gutierrez was ousted Monday by school district director Hal Harrell.

A legislative committee report charged “total failure of the body” and “lack of leadership” due to the high number of deaths in the May shootings.

Gutierrez and other school officials reportedly knew that the key to room 111, the room where the shooting occurred, was not working properly, but took no action to correct it.

“Rob Elementary has a culture of non-compliance with safety rules that require doors to be locked, which has proven deadly,” the report says.

Attackers could easily enter the school through a locked door.

“If the door to room 111 had been closed, the attackers would have been late for some time,” the report says.

Gutiérrez is the second Uvalde employee to be on vacation due to the massacre. School district police chief Pete Aledondo was fired in June after coming under fire for failing to direct police to arrest shooters after he was locked in a classroom.

Released video footage shows police resisting access to 111 rooms for more than an hour as the shooter opened fire in the classroom.

The Uvalde Board of Education also approved a measure on Monday to postpone the start of the school year to September 6, three weeks ago. Officials said they needed more time to share resources with elementary school classrooms. The school will be demolished.

“We will never ask kids to come back to this school or teachers to come back to this school,” Mayor Don McLaughlin said in June.

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