He may be a little short for college, but he had plenty of company his height. He and about 180 of his sixth grade colleagues came to college for a day.

"We want kids to know what college is about. Demystifying college for a sixth grader is really an incredible thing," said BART Charter School teacher Sue Lenhoff.

It's part of "Berkshire County Goes to College Day" and kids got the chance to sit in on classes and connect with college students.

Sixth graders go to college

The average age at one local college was just about cut in half on Tuesday, thanks to a group of sixth graders who showed up on the scene. Our Ryan Burgess caught up with the class to find out what they're doing in college.

That way, kids can learn from college professors about chemistry and biology, but they said it's also a way to help stop a national trend.

"When you look across the country at the serious crisis we're having with dropout rates, we need to be getting into the middle schools and we need to be getting into the schools earlier so that children can be imagining a brighter possibility, a brighter future. So the earlier we can start, the better," said Grant.

Spending the day in college is something the teachers said they hope just gets the kids thinking about college. The kids said if that was the goal, mission accomplished.

"It's awesome because you get to go around campus and you get to view all the labs that they have and it's really fun because we just came from one of the labs and it was science. We got to feed the anemones," said BART Charter School 6th grader Luke McKay.

"It's interesting because I come from a small town and it's really cool seeing a big school and all the labs and stuff," said Bart Charter School 6th grader Desarai Gazaille.

She may be from a small town, but today was a tall order of college classes, no matter how tall the students actually were.