Students at Trenton Elementary School are starting the school year off in new classrooms after a devastating fire last year.
Some students in Trenton, in Fannin County, are headed into their first day back on campus after their school burned down last year.
, the district’s only elementary school, burned to the ground in April. Smoke also damaged the middle school nearby.Now the Trenton Independent School District is utilizing about 20 portable classrooms.But the superintendent said getting to this point took a lot of hard work from the entire staff. And they’re happy to have gotten to this point.
"It was some tough times to get through it. But we had an amazing staff, amazing support around us that we were able to actually only miss one true day of school through that whole process before we came up with a plan and got our kids in the building. We wanted to get them back to normalcy as quick as we could," Superintendent Jeremy Strickland said.
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