By the second year the people in charge of running the internado knew that 65 was too many kids, and that they couldn't handle kids as young as seven years old. Numbers were held back to about 40, and the youngest kids are ten or eleven (and then only when there is a real perceived need).

Earlier grades have classes in the morning, but since they're older, all the internado kids attend school in the afternoons. After chores, after breakfast, and frequently after working to produce their own food in the internado's garden, they usually spend most of their mornings doing homework in the study area.