I'd say that my girls might be more in the HG than EG category but I have one who does much, much better when placed with older kids and one who doesn't. My oldest has always seemed older than her age and the fit since skipping a grade has been much better socially.
My youngest has always been the youngest in most things she does due to where her bd falls and us kind of sneaking around a K cut-off by starting her elsewhere and then moving her. It's a tough situation with her b/c, when she does a class like a drama class where she's on the older end of the spectrum, she is generally disengaged and doesn't like the way the other kids act, but she doesn't complain. When she's the youngest, she is unhappy b/c she feels like other people talk down to her and treat her like a baby.
I think that part of it comes from her dumbing down and not showing what she can do, so the older kids have no reason to assume that she is very capable. For her, the other piece is that she is very, very small physically. Going into 6th grade, she's 4'4" and well under 60 lbs. She has a number of kids in her grade who are a good foot taller than her. It's a bummer but she's got short Italian genes and I don't know what I can do about that.
