Age cut-offs

[Anonymous]

I have a child with a September birthday. Can I avoid the public school date cut-off issue by sending her to private school? Or do private schools also follow the same August 31st cut-off? (assuming of course that child is ready developmentally to enter school....)

[Anonymous]

Most private schools around here seem to use 8/31 as the cut off. FCPS is 9/30 fwiw.

[Anonymous]

What is FCPS?

[Anonymous]

Fairfax County Public Schools

[Anonymous]

Some privates use 6/1 as the cutoff

[Anonymous]

Privates in DC generally have earlier cut offs than publics

[Anonymous]

We are in Montgomery County - I only found one school that advertised it on their website and it was 9/30. More research to do I guess....

[Anonymous]

Langley's official cutoff is 9/30.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Langley's official cutoff is 9/30.

This is incorrect. They are 9/1 http://www.langleyschool.org/admission/frequentlyaskedque.aspx

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Langley's official cutoff is 9/30.

This is incorrect. They are 9/1 http://www.langleyschool.org/admission/frequentlyaskedque.aspx

OK, before someone corrects me it's 9/1 for 3 yo and 9/30 for JK and K which makes no sense. I didn't read all the way through. Sorry...

[Anonymous]

We have a September birthday and we are heading to Langley

[Anonymous]

The schools have cut-offs but just like publics they do not have to stick to them.

[Anonymous]

I believe French International School and Deutsche Schule have calendar year cut offs. You may try them until 2nd grade and then transfer to public/private...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a September birthday and we are heading to Langley

Is your DC enrolling in preschool?

[Anonymous]

Langley does what they (or probably the parents) think is best for the individual kid. So some kids with August-September birthdays are put in K on time and others with June-August birthdays are held back.