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The village of mobile classrooms at the rear of Northwest Guilford Middle School isn’t going to be replaced any time soon because it didn’t make the list of schools to be renovated or replaced from the sale of $300 million of bonds. Next door, Northwest Guilford High School has 24 mobile classrooms, the most of any school in Guilford County.
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Regarding the mobile classrooms you wrote about in a recent issue, is it true that Northwest Guilford High School has the most trailers of any school in the county?
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There are 24 classroom trailers on Northwest Guilford High School’s campus, putting it ahead of secondplace Northeast Guilford High School, which has 20 trailers, according to GCS spokesman Janson Silvers. Countywide, schools are using 464 trailers for classrooms. The majority of the trailers at NWHS are 1996-1998 models, with the oldest one dating back to 1995 and the newest to 2005, Silvers said in an email last week. The oldest trailers have exceeded the manufacturer’s life expectancy and the newest ones are approaching it. The life expectancy is “typically 20 to 25 years, depending on how they are maintained,” Silvers said. The oldest trailer in the school
