Splitting a class - more than 3 categories

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Since we lack of teachers at our school we try to combine students of different classes in many ways. That means, many classes are devided in up to 5 categories: the sex (male or female), the second foreign language (Latin or French), physics or chemistry, the religion (catholic, protestant or agnostic) and at last music or arts education.

If I choose the mathematically exact way to divide such a class into subgroups I have to consider 2*2*3*2*2 = 24 subgroups. Handling this bunch of subgroups is not easy and may lead to errors. Is there a recommended way to manage the problem more easily?

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[Volker Dirr]

there are several possibilities.

please check the follwing:
http://www.timetabling.de/manual/FET-manual.en.html#id_12
and
http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/forum/index.php?topic=909.0
and
http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/forum/index.php?topic=905.0

or:
i saw you are from bavaria. i know they have at least a statistic software (asv) and also some school administartion software (KuBLQD, WinSV, ...) if you have entered your data in that software you can check if they can export a csv file and import the students structure. (i know bavaria software is available at http://www.schule.bayern.de/winsv/ , but since i am from nrw i didn't test that software yet.)
if you don't know how to import, but found the csv file and/or a file description of that software and/or sent me same sample lines of the csv file and i can write an import filter. i done that already for software from NRW, so i think modifing it for bavaria software is maybe not difficlut.