Majid Abdollahi, Deputy Director of the Organization for Renovation, Development, and Equipping Schools in Iran, reported the existence of approximately 1,820 prefabricated classrooms and announced that these schools need to be organized and made safe.
On Monday, December 30, Abdollahi told the Young Journalists Club that prefabricated classrooms with more than ten students have been prioritized in the prefabricated school project.
He also revealed that approximately 1,100 stone-structured schools have been identified nationwide and said that planning to assess local needs and project site selection is the responsibility of the Renovation Organization and provincial education departments.
Earlier, on November 27, Hamidreza Khanmohammadi, head of the Organization for Renovation, Development, and Equipping Schools, warned that seven provinces—Tehran, Qom, Sistan and Baluchestan, Khuzestan, Khorasan Razavi, Alborz, and West Azerbaijan—are facing a severe shortage of schools.
On October 14, Alireza Kazemi, Minister of Education, stated: “The existence of prefabricated schools does not signify a crisis; environmental conditions and sometimes the number of students lead to the establishment of prefabricated schools.”
According to official statistics, approximately 70,000 classrooms in the country need structural reinforcement, and 30,000 others require demolition and reconstruction.
The necessary funding for improving educational spaces and building new schools in Iran is generally provided through the participation of philanthropic school builders.
In May, Safarali Yazerloo, Deputy Director of the Organization for Renovation, Development, and Equipping Schools, announced that 57% of schools in the country are built with the help of individuals and legal entities.
Thus, the Iranian regime’s share in financing school construction is only 43%.
