Education

Could Boston go to 6-year high schools?

Boston’s Haley School has added a building to accommodate seventh- and eighth-graders. John Tlumacki / The Boston Globe

By The Boston Globe

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Boston Superintendent Tommy Chang, grappling with a sharp enrollment decline in the middle grades, is floating the idea of creating a system of elementary schools that end at grade 6 and high schools that start at grade 7, a move that could radically alter the fabric of most schools across the city.

Chang and his team have been talking about the idea with school principals since this summer and have begun soliciting proposals from individual schools.

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