If any upper primary school has a total enrollment of 130 students, then how…

The RTE Act 2009 Schedule lays down separate teacher-deployment norms for primary schools (Classes I–V) and upper primary schools (Classes VI–VIII). For upper primary schools, the Schedule requires a Pupil–Teacher Ratio (PTR) of 35 students per teacher — with at least one teacher each for Science & Mathematics, Social Studies, and Languages — and, wherever total enrollment exceeds 100 children, an additional full-time Head Teacher over and above the subject teachers, along with part-time instructors for Art Education, Health & Physical Education, and Work Education.

1. This school's enrollment is 130 students, so applying the 35:1 ratio gives 130 ÷ 35 = 3.7 teachers.

2. Since a school cannot appoint a fractional teacher, this is rounded up to 4 subject teachers.

3. The enrollment of 130 exceeds the 100-student threshold, so a full-time Head Teacher must additionally be provided.

4. Adding the Head Teacher to the subject-teacher count: 4 + 1 = 5 teachers.

This matches the reasoning the recruiting authority's expert committee applied when this exact question's provisional key was revised after candidate objections — 4 subject teachers from the 35:1 ratio plus 1 Head Teacher for enrollment above 100 — a revision the Rajasthan High Court upheld as the mathematically correct reading of the RTE Act's Schedule.

The Government must therefore provide 5 teachers to this upper primary school.