How Many Students Should Be in Each Elementary Class? Will Fewer Students Lead to Fewer Teacher Hires?

The Deputy Minister of Primary Education at the Ministry of Education referred to the declining trend in the student population in the country, stating: Although it may seem that the need for human resources will decrease with the reduction in the number of students from a purely statistical perspective, as long as schools are not fully operating in a single shift and class sizes do not reach optimal standards, there will still be a need to hire teachers. It seems that it will take more than a decade to reach these conditions.