Just off of Route 53 in an office building, each classroom seat 8-20 students.

It effectively doubled the school's total number of classroom seats.

One out of every eleven youngsters is without a regular classroom seat.

The baby boomers who filled those classroom seats are now middle-aged.

By February, nine new school buildings and other projects will have provided classroom seats for 14,661 students over the last four years.

He also said the classroom seats of the pupils who were killed would not be refilled this year.

Were there only one available classroom seat for every 10 fourth graders, it would be a national scandal.

The 76 new schools would provide 62,700 classroom seats citywide, he said.

Over the next year, that will free approximately 3,200 classroom seats citywide.

Mayor Koch said the $80 million project would add 3,600 new classroom seats within five years.