Well the major issue of the functional school size is the size of the staff. We *never* got any indication that there was more than one teacher for each subject. For the *whole school*. One teacher would not be able to handle a courseload of 600 students. There isn't enough *time* to handle a courseload of 600 students. In the real world a teacher with a full courseload handles the teaching of maybe a couple of hundred if that. Even estimating 280 students at Hogwarts -- which would fit with the size of Harry's year -- is pushing it considerably, and really only doable fore the core classes if you assume that rather a lot of kids don't go beyond OWL-level on most of them.
And the teacher being magical isn't something that is going to make a difference considering the actual demands. Not unless anyone who teaches is required to use a time-turner and burn themselves out in the process.
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Date: 2014-02-03 09:24 pm (UTC)And the teacher being magical isn't something that is going to make a difference considering the actual demands. Not unless anyone who teaches is required to use a time-turner and burn themselves out in the process.