Rowling has answered thsi question twice, and her answers contradict each other a little. In a chat interview she said there are a thousand students at Hogwarts but on her official web site's F.A.Q, in a reply to a question related to the Marauders Map, she said it has "hundreds of dots". Rowling has also said on this topic, that she is bad at thinking in numbers.
So let us fans try too.
If I counted correctly, apart from the ghosts and Peeves, Hogwarts has 17 adult staff members. We could also count the older students who get the rights to monitor the corridors and other students but they add...
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