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These arrangements are very common. Combination classes occur when a school has an overflow of students in one grade that exceeds the planned number of classrooms and teachers. Rather than hire a new teacher, the district will save money if a combo is created. It is a district decision.

Research evidences that mixed-age classrooms are beneficial for young children's development. Not only do children out-perform peers of the same age academically, studies also show that they thrive socially and emotionally. Mixed-age classrooms generate a family of learners who support and care for one another.

Potential concerns of a composite class The older children in the grade will become disengaged and held back by the lower level content. Students will be overlooked and not sufficiently challenged. The curriculum for each year level will be inadequately covered. The class size will be too big.

When we mix classes we can achieve the following : Creating opportunities for children to learn and play with a wider variety of peers. Enabling greater social interaction between children as they move through the school. Ensuring that each of the classes remains balanced in response to pupil development.

A combined class is when students in more than one grade level are being taught by the same teacher, in the same classroom. Students in a combined grade follow expectations for their specific grade.

Children learn at different paces. Blended classes offer a wider range of curricula across two grade levels. Advanced students can be more easily challenged with higher-level material; struggling students can more easily return to earlier material.

The combination class, in which students from two adjacent grades are grouped within one classroom under one teacher, is a tool that school administrators can use to manage uneven class sizes and conserve scarce facility and personnel resources.