§ 48010

Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 705, Sec. 4. (SB 1381) Effective January 1, 2011.
(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.

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