A rope resembling a noose turned up near a California elementary school — the second such sighting in three weeks, according to new reports.

The more recent rope was discovered Friday afternoon, hanging on the fence of a batting cage on the side of Chabot Elementary School in Oakland, ABC 7 reported.

Back on Aug. 21, a parent told Oakland police that their child found a similar-looking rope on the ground near the school and tossed it to the fence.

That incident was considered “an accident” by the Oakland Unified School District, the station reported.

But last week’s discovery has parents at the school feeling uneasy.

“You hear the chatter in the neighborhood and I think everyone is a little on edge,” Oakland resident Jason Dobert told the station.

“There is no other way to associate a noose,” Mark Dubois, whose son Julian recently started kindergarten at Chabot, told KPIX 5. “The noose is targeting the African-American community.”

“If this school is being targeted, do you really want to be here and wait for this person to take it to the next level?” he added.

Oakland police and the school district’s police department are investigating the circumstances surrounding the latest rope, Oakland Unified School District spokesperson John Sasaki told the station.

“Our police have been on it, the FBI has come in and looked at that and the other incident and in both cases, the FBI said they don’t have enough evidence to show it was a hate crime as far as they are concerned,” he said.

Some of the Little League coaches told the outlet they think there could be another explanation for the ropes, according to Sasaki.

“They have seen young people climbing up on top of that batting cage to just hang out, should we say, and they think that maybe that rope was used to go up and come down,” he said.

Still, the district takes “anything that is an affront to any member of our community very seriously,” Sasaki added.

“Certainly, whether it was intentional or not in both cases, it does bring up these feelings about nooses and the history of this country that we call home,” he said.

Both investigations are still active, the district emphasized.

In an unrelated incident at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, math student Andrew Smith was charged with a hate crime Sept. 2 for allegedly leaving a noose in a residence hall elevator.