A student at a north Alabama junior high school was arrested Wednesday after they were allegedly found with a loaded gun on campus.

The administration at Austin Junior High School received a report around 3 p.m. Wednesday of a student possibly with a weapon on campus, said Decatur City School Deputy Superintendent Dwight Satterfield.

School administrators and a school resource officer went to the student’s classroom and questioned and searched them, Satterfield said.

A loaded, 9mm handgun was found on the student, the deputy superintendent said.

The student was arrested by the school resource officer, who is a Decatur police officer, and transported off campus.

Satterfield said parents were notified of the incident by 3:15 p.m. Wednesday.

“Decatur City Schools was trying to be very transparent with you while the police were doing their duty and let you know that we had some concerns going on on campus,” he said in a video addressing the incident to parents.

Austin Junior High will operate “under heightened alert” when it reopens, Satterfield said, meaning staff will be “quick to report anything that doesn’t look, feel or sound right.”

The school will also have an increased police presence, he said.

“We want to be fully transparent with you as the safety of your children and our staff is paramount,” Satterfield said.

The incident was not related to a fight that occurred two hours earlier that led to two students being arrested and one of them being tazed, he said.