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This article briefly summarizes some of the latest research on grade school configuration, specifically the benefits of K - 8 configurations versus middle school configurations.

This article briefly summarizes some of the latest research on grade school configuration, specifically the benefits of K - 8 configurations versus middle school...

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Capacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary schedule.

In New York City, the Executive Budget also requires that a charter's entire planned grade configuration — elementary, middle or high school — be located within a single building including grade levels not yet in operation at the time of opening.

«Today there are 186 elementary schools, 58 middle schools, 55 high schools, and another 30 schools with different grade configurations.

In Florida, grade configuration is not a primary driver of the estimated positive effects of charter high schools on attainment.

Because the studies use data from a single school year to contrast students in middle schools and K — 8 schools, most of the available research can not reject the possibility that differences between the groups of students, rather than in the grade configuration of their schools, are actually responsible for the differences in behavior and achievement.

What was so odd about Dennis Walcott's announcement that New York City was opening 50 new middle schools is that the most recent research suggesting that a middle school grade configuration (generally, 6 — 8) is probably not the way to go was done in his city.

In Chicago, however, we could not run similar analyses because grade configuration is too strongly correlated with charter status; we therefore can not rule out the possibility that positive results in Chicago could be partly attributable to eliminating the transition from middle school to high school.

In last year's fall issue of Education Next Columbia Business School researchers Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood reported their findings from a review of almost ten years of data for Gotham school children who were in grades 3 though 8, in all different school grade configurations, and concluded rather ominSchool researchers Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood reported their findings from a review of almost ten years of data for Gotham school children who were in grades 3 though 8, in all different school grade configurations, and concluded rather ominschool children who were in grades 3 though 8, in all different school grade configurations, and concluded rather ominschool grade configurations, and concluded rather ominously:

Could something as simple as changing the grade configuration of schools improve academic outcomes?

Perrotti makes the comparison that, years ago, when we first started talking about different configurations of families or students, educators often worried about how to talk to young kids «about sex» when those kinds of discussions in schools didn't happen until at least fifth grade.

The researchers also conducted a test - score analysis separately for schools in Miami - Dade County, which is Florida's largest district (345,000 students) and offers a wide range of grade configurations up through grade 8.

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Her school recently changed from a K - 6 grade configuration to K - 8.

The study's findings support these school conversions and «are also relevant to the expanding charter school sector, which has the opportunity to choose grade configurations» when schools are established.

We use a school - level measure that has been standardized across the sample of schools included in our analysis, taking into account the various grade configurations in different schools.

National Center for Education Statistics 2005 data reveal that 6th, 7th, and / or 8th graders are found in schools with at least 60 different grade configurations.

It's also worth noting that the EdSource study («Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better,» 2010) cited in «The Middle School Mess,» did not find grade configuration to be a factor in student performance.

That statistic alone challenges the use of grade configuration as the defining factor for the straw man middle school.

In my research I have identified 34 different examples of charter school innovation, including small size; untenured teachers; contracts with parents; real parent and teacher involvement in school governance; outcome -(rather than input --RRB- based accreditation; service learning fully integrated into the curricula; unusual grade configurations; split sessions and extended school days and years to accommodate working students; and computer - assisted instruction for at - risk and other frequently absent students.

And because some Florida students attend schools with grade six through 12 or seven through 12 configurations, he was able to compare the effect of entering a middle school in grade six or seven to that of entering high school in grade nine.

While some earlier studies questioned the role of grade configuration in school success and student achievement, including the 2008 National Forum «Policy Statement on Grade Configuration» and a 2010 study by EdSource, «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better» in California, «the evidence on academic benefits has become much stronger in the past two years,&raquconfiguration in school success and student achievement, including the 2008 National Forum «Policy Statement on Grade Configuration» and a 2010 study by EdSource, «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better» in California, «the evidence on academic benefits has become much stronger in the past two years,&raquConfiguration» and a 2010 study by EdSource, «Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better» in California, «the evidence on academic benefits has become much stronger in the past two years,» West says.

This suggests that it may be harder to create an effective middle school than an effective K — 8 school, and that part of the challenge is simply that middle school grade configurations require an additional school transition.»

«If you look at international comparisons, kids in the United States perform better at elementary school than the later grades... so it made sense to look at whether grade configuration influenced this.»

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«I'm generally sympathetic with this argument, especially to the extent that it points to a set of practices that middle schools could adopt to address their performance problems given that wholesale changes to grade configuration are unlikely to occur overnight,» he says.

Where a school registered pursuant to this paragraph is in a district in which one or more schools have been designated as a school in improvement, corrective action or restructuring, the commissioner shall determine the accountability status of the newly registered school based upon his review of the proposed educational program, including but not limited to such factors as: school mission, school administration and staff, grade configurations and groupings of students, zoning patterns, curricula and instruction and facilities.

The key assumption of our methodology is that there are no unobserved differences between students who in 3rd grade attended schools that had these different grade configurations that affect achievement precisely in the year when students enter middle school.

We conduct an analogous analysis of high - school entry, taking advantage of the different grade configurations of the schools students attended in 6th grade.

We also find that the transition to high school causes a small drop in student achievement for all students who make this transition (as distinct from those in schools with 6 — 12 grade configurations).

In other words, we are assuming that the negative effect of a transition is not anticipated by parents and reflected in the choice of a school with a particular grade configuration in grade 3.

In recognition of the association noted above — that suspension rates differ by the grade configuration of schools — performance levels are different for elementary, middle, and high schools.

Perhaps the most telling research about the impact of middle - school grade configuration is a recent study of New York City middle schools by Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood (see «Stuck in the Middle,» Education Next, Fall 2010).

They are also relevant to the expanding charter - school sector, which has the opportunity to choose grade configurations without the disruption caused by school closures.

«Is there a «best» grade configuration for schools that serve early adolescents?»

Parents and educators have begun abandoning the middle school for K — 8 configurations, and new research suggests that grade configuration does matter: when this age group is gathered by the hundreds and educated separately, both behavior and learning suffer.

Investigating the transition to high school, we find that students moving to a new high school between grades 8 and 9 suffer a small drop in achievement of 0.03 standard deviations in math and 0.04 standard deviations in reading (relative to those in grade 6 — 12 schools or schools with another configuration that requires no transition at this point).

In addition, we also control for whether the individual student had been retained in a grade, whether the student had ever been retained, and whether the student attends a charter school (which in Florida are more likely than traditional public schools to have K — 8 configurations).

Perhaps the most telling research about the impact of middle - school grade configuration is a recent study of New York City middle schools by Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood (see «Stuck in the Middle,» research, Fall 2010).

The Columbia Business School researchers studied the impacts of grade configuration on learning and concluded that «middle schools are not the best way to educate students» in districts like New York City.

The results suggest that the negative effects of entering a middle school are most pronounced in cities, but they remain sizable even in rural areas, confirming that the negative effects of configurations that separate the middle - school grades are by no means limited to urban school districts.

This suggests a final potential interpretation of our results that is directly related to the choice of grade configuration: students may benefit from being among the oldest students in a school setting that includes very young students, perhaps because they have greater opportunity to take on leadership roles.

The trends suggest that grade configuration matters to at least some parents and educators, who decided some time ago that separately configured schools for preadolescents are not the best way to go.

Superintendent Tommy Chang presented a plan to the Boston School Committee that would eliminate middle schools and change the grade configuration of other schools in Boston so that students only have to change schools once during their education, James Vaznis reports in the Boston Globe.

Researchers have questioned the merits of isolating middle school students in their own grade configuration for years.

Before joining the Deputy Mayor's Office, she worked at District of Columbia Public Schools as Chief of Staff to the Chief Operating Officer during which she supported the agency's portfolio planning activities, including school closures, grade configuration changes, and enrollment projections.

Table 3 - 2 exhibits the grade configuration of schools.

Each WSI participating school was matched to a similar school on size, grade configuration, Title I designation, as well as proportions based on gender, race / ethnicity, and students participating in the free / reduced price lunch program.

The district includes 202 schools: 113 elementary, 23 middle, 27 high, 10 alternative, 25 charters, 25 child development centers, and 4 atypical (grade configurations) schools.