Portable classroom

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Type of classroom

title: "Portable classroom" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["portable-buildings-and-shelters", "educational-environment", "school-terminology", "modularity"] description: "Type of classroom" topic_path: "society/education" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_classroom" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Type of classroom ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Portable_classroom.JPG" caption="A portable classroom at [[Rockcliffe Park Public School]] in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], Canada"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Portable_classroom_building_at_Rock_Creek_Elementary_School_-_Washington_County,_Oregon.jpg" caption="A portable classroom with [[wheelchair ramp]] at an elementary school in Washington County, Oregon, U.S."] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Portables_at_peirre_trudeau.JPG" caption="Portable classrooms at [[Pierre Elliott Trudeau High School]] in [[Markham, Ontario]], Canada"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/RHSPortable.jpg" caption="Reynolds High School]] in [[Troutdale, Oregon]], U.S."] ::

A portable classroom (also known as a demountable or relocatable classroom), is a type of portable building installed at a school to temporarily and quickly provide additional classroom space where there is a shortage of capacity. They are designed so they may be removed once the capacity situation abates, whether by a permanent addition to the school, another school being opened in the area, or a reduction in student population. Such buildings would be installed much like a mobile home, with utilities often being attached to a main building to provide light and heat for the room. Portable classrooms may also be used if permanent classrooms are uninhabitable, such as after a fire or during a major refurbishment.

Sometimes, the portable classrooms are meant to be long-lasting and are built as a "portapack", which combines a series of portables and connects them with a hallway.

Portable classrooms are colloquially known as bungalows, slum classes, t-shacks, trailers, terrapins, huts, t-buildings, portables, mobiles, or relocatables. In the UK, those built in 1945–1950 were known as HORSA huts after the name of the Government's post-war building programme, "Hutting Operation for the Raising of the School-leaving Age". Others in the UK are often known as 'Pratten huts' after the Pratten company that supplied many of them after World War II.

References

References

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  2. Turner, Ben. (1 August 2011). "Wirral's last 'temporary' post-war Horsa school hut to be bulldozed to allow Overchurch Infants revamp".
  3. Webb, Simon. (1 February 2013). "The Best Days of Our Lives: School Life in Post-War Britain". History Press.
  4. "Domesday Reloaded: Spaxton V. C. Primary School".
  5. "Gomeldon Primary School, Idmiston". Wiltshire Council.
  6. "Pratten Hut – St Dunstan School, Calne, Wiltshire".
  7. "School website for The Rainbow Pre-School Learning Centre Warminster".

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