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Is it really good educational practice to put the fifth grade with the eighth grade at the existing high school when it is converted to the middle school?

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Is it really good educational practice to put the fifth grade with the eighth grade at the existing high school when it is converted to the middle school?

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The fifth grade students would occupy the Donnelly wing. Their program would operate independent of grades 6-8. It is not uncommon for fifth graders to be under the same roof as eighth graders. In fact, research is very supportive of the ele-middle concept housing grades K-8 in the same facility.