Education Code section 48010

(a)

A child shall be admitted to the first grade of an elementary school during the first month of a school year if the child will have his or her sixth birthday on or before one of the following dates:

(1)

December 2 of the 2011–12 school year.

(2)

November 1 of the 2012–13 school year.

(3)

October 1 of the 2013–14 school year.

(4)

September 1 of the 2014–15 school year and each school year thereafter.

(b)

For good cause, the governing board of a school district may permit a child of proper age to be admitted to a class after the first school month of the school term.

Source: Section 48010, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=EDC§ionNum=48010.­ (updated Jan. 1, 2011; accessed Aug. 3, 2026).

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