It wasn’t until the mid-1900s that adolescents began attending middle or junior high schools. Previously, kindergarten through eighth-grade students were all kept in one school. The idea of a school between elementary and high school simply hadn’t been extensively modeled. So, other than the good chance that your young teen will come out of a K-8 school more confident, what are the benefits of this learning environment over a middle school or junior high school?

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