In some instances the students from as many as three grade levels are grouped with a single teacher. In other classes two teachers have the equivalent of two full classes and work with them together in a double classroom. Not all elementary schools have multi-age classes, and those that do do not have them at all grade levels. Please contact the elementary of your choice to see what configuration they may offer. For a number of decades there has been a call for a more flexible approach to the grouping and progression of children in the early years of schooling.
Children develop and learn at different rates and in different ways.
Schools have a responsibility to recognize the individuality of each child and to do whatever can be done to respond to it in helping the child to learn. Multi-age classrooms is an organizational strategy which involves grouping children together over a span of age and grade levels. By grouping children this way, it is possible for teachers to use strategies which will be more responsive to the individual needs of children. Flexible progression through their years of schooling, recognizing that children will learn at different rates. Problems associated with a yearly transition from one grade to another can be overcome.