Six students at Boulder’s Fairview High School were suspended earlier this month after police allege they threw Molotov cocktails into the school in an effort to set it on fire and extend their spring break.

Boulder police were called to Fairview, 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., at 4 a.m. March 30 after a security guard noticed someone had tried to light something on fire inside the school, according to a police report.

Police found two broken windows and another window with smoke damage at the south entrance to the school, as well as two large rocks, a baseball bat, a lighter, a broken glass bottle and a charred cloth outside the windows.

Inside, officers noticed a smell of smoke and a charred area on the floor near a second glass bottle, according to the report.

On April 1, Fairview High identified six students who later confessed to the incident, according to police.

According to the police report, the six students — who were not identified because they are juveniles — went to the school on March 29 and filled bottles with gasoline to create Molotov cocktails, then ignited them before throwing them into the school through the broken windows.

The students told police they tried to set the school on fire to extend their spring break for a couple of days, and that they checked the parking lot to make sure nobody was in the building at the time.

Fairview High students reported back to school on March 30 — the day the damage was found — after having the previous week off.

According to the police report, the students were suspended for 10 days pending further investigation.

Boulder Valley School District officials declined to comment on the incident or the disciplinary actions taken against the students.

The police department referred the students to the Boulder County district attorney’s restorative justice program, and no arrests were made.

The incident resulted in about $1,500 in damage to the windows and floor of the high school. Nobody was injured.

Mitchell Byars: 303-473-1329, byarsm@dailycamera.com or twitter.com/mitchellbyars