St. Paul Public Schools said Wednesday that additional emotional support staff would be made available, if necessary, to students upset by the surprise election of Donald Trump.

Supervisory counselors were slated to check in with school staff to identify any schools that are “more impacted by the results,” spokeswoman Toya Stewart Downey told the Pioneer Press early Wednesday. If needed, lead counselors and social workers and those in temporary administrative roles would be sent to work in schools.

“If there are schools that seem to be over capacity (in terms of the support they can offer), we will look to deploy support staff from the district who can provide additional support,” Stewart Downey said.

The district would not pull support staff out of one school to work at another Wednesday, however. “We don’t want to decrease capacity at one building to increase in another,” she said.

Stewart Downey noted that the capacity to respond to upsetting events is greater in the district this school year. The district added 20 counselors, six social workers and five school psychologists as a result of teacher contract negotiations.

Trump narrowly lost Minnesota on Tuesday but defeated Hillary Clinton nationally, largely because of strong support from white voters. Just 23 percent of St. Paul district students are white.

Should be interesting explaining this election without emotion. — Jayson Clark (@mrclark_spps) November 9, 2016

Trump, who had pledged to build a wall on the Mexican border and temporarily ban Muslims from entering the country, struck a more unifying tone in a speech early Wednesday, saying it’s time to “bind the wounds of division” and “come together as one united people.”

In a letter to families, the principal of the grades 1-8 Capitol Hill Gifted and Talented Magnet said some students were especially anxious and worried Wednesday.

“A first grader expressed worry to his teacher that his family might be sent back to the country where his parents were born. A Muslim middle schooler said her dad didn’t go to work today because he was afraid. Students expressed worry that World War 3 would occur,” Patrick Bryan wrote.

Bryan said staff told students they all are cared for at Capitol Hill and encouraged them to “focus on our own local community.”

The school district said it had 218 teachers absent Wednesday, which they called a typical number and down from earlier in the week.

Student attendance data for the district was not available.

Thx to all the staff @SPPS_News for working w kids on this day after the election. They barely woke up before heading towards school. — Mary Henry 🇺🇸 (@DunkelMary) November 9, 2016

Stewart Downey said the district’s curriculum is “designed to be flexible and incorporate what is happening in our communities, country and world. From elementary to high school classrooms, teachers have the flexibility to respond as necessary.”

At Capitol Hill, Mark Westpfahl’s students watched Clinton give her first speech since losing the election. They later watched President Barack Obama make a call for unity, saying he’s “rooting for” Trump to succeed as president.