chrisabella t1_j9wg7nr wrote on February 25, 2023 at 1:22 AM

Happy you posted this because I’m in a similar position - my daughter is an early Oct 2018 baby too. I haven’t seen any schools in southern NH with cutoffs past Sept.

NH_603_Family OP t1_j9whbce wrote on February 25, 2023 at 1:30 AM

You are SO welcome. I spent an hour on Google and could not find any table with kindergarten entrance dates by district. How frustrating! I hope we can figure this out!!!

LilacSlumber t1_j9wtz2s wrote on February 25, 2023 at 3:11 AM

Edit - The below comment is inaccurate in regards to NH. My apologies for being totally wrong.

Kindergarten entrance age is set by the state, not by districts.

There are 3 or 4 states who let local districts set the cut off dates, but NH is not one of them.

NH_603_Family OP t1_j9wv00g wrote on February 25, 2023 at 3:20 AM

Yes it is. NH kindergarten ages are by district.

LilacSlumber t1_j9wylsp wrote on February 25, 2023 at 3:51 AM

I am sorry. I was told by my last three districts that the Sept 30th date was state mandated. When I looked up all state age cut offs, I didn't even bother to look at NH's because I assumed I knew the cut off date.

Will edit my comment. Thank you for the correction.

NH_603_Family OP t1_j9x3lkg wrote on February 25, 2023 at 4:36 AM

No problem! As you can see, I have been frantically doing my research on this! 😆

LilacSlumber t1_j9wtszs wrote on February 25, 2023 at 3:10 AM

It's a state mandate, not by district.

Only 3 states have a cut off date that goes past Sept 30th and one of them is Oct 1st.*

This date was not randomly picked by some random person, it is research based and enforced for a reason.

*There are 3 or 4 states who let local districts choose the cut off dates, but it looks like these are all states that do not require Kindergarten. (New Hampshire also does not require Kindergarten.)