middle school | Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Are K-8 schools better?
Learning Together A study in the American Educational Research Journal confirms what Mr. Hillyer knew all along. Students who attended a K-8 school are the most comfortable, feel the safest, and ultimately perform better academically than their counterparts at traditional middle schools.
Why is middle school a thing?
Fifty years after the first junior high schools were established, educators began to call for middle schools–new schools that had a different grade organization and a more developmentally responsive program–in order to provide a more gradual and appropriate transition between the elementary and high school years.