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Abstract

This article invites reflection on how the student grouping models directly influence school success. International scientific literature for decades has shown that separation by performance levels is detrimental especially for students in the lower-level groups, since the latter performs less instrumental learning activities, receives less content, Learning is much slower, hurting all their academic performance and getting worse results. On the other hand, the results of international research show that heterogeneous groups, which also introduce the existing resources within the classroom to support the teacher, improve the academic performance of all students, while improving their self-esteem. Therefore, school clusters in the Spanish education system should take these scaffolds into account to provide quality learning for all students and not just a few.