[quote][i]The designation for her homeroom came with a seating chart; she did not forget nor did it really surprise her that she didn’t get to pick her own seat in a school as rigorous and over-serious like Ishin Academy. Not that it mattered all that personally to her considering four was her favorite number, anyway! The assigned number could have meant something as simple as fourth in the back or fourth in the front.[/i][/quote]
Essentially, yeah. The desks themselves will have pieces of folded paper with the numbers written on them (in Japanese, duh.) so the students can notice their designations and correctly file into their assigned numerical seat.