Students who attend Vern Patrick Elementary School in Redmond stayed home today so school officials could clean up after a small fire that started in an office early Sunday morning.

Officials said today they expected classes to resume Tuesday.

A computer monitor apparently caught fire about 5 a.m. Sunday in a small office, said Kent Barnes, a Redmond Fire Department shift captain. The school’s sprinkler system doused the fire before firefighters arrived at the school, located at 3001 SW Obsidian Ave. No one was hurt.

”It was minor, mostly computer stuff,” Barnes said Sunday.

The blaze caused about $5,000 worth of damage, fire officials estimate. The fire didn’t look suspicious, Barnes said. The computer monitor was plugged in, but not turned on. It was the only computer in the small office. Principal Suzanne Schibel said classes were canceled for safety reasons. The school operates on a central ventilation system, Schibel said, and officials wanted to keep children away from the smoke’s potential health hazards. A fire restoration team surveyed the fire damage Sunday. Crews planned to clean carpets and walls today, Schibel said.

The fire didn’t spread to adjoining classrooms, but the wing of the building received smoke damage.

”The soot was everywhere,” Schibel said. ”We need to do a major cleaning, and it’s going to take us a day to do that. We need to see if it smells sooty, and I don’t want the kids here. We want this to be 150 percent OK.”

Teachers notified parents about the canceled classes.

Although she dealt with cleaning and sorting through items damaged by flames Sunday morning, Schibel said she was grateful the fire remained relatively small.

”This could be worse,” she said. ”The sprinklers worked like a charm.”