Policy committee keeps Sept. 15 kindergarten cutoff, tightens pathway for early entry

SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Springfield Township School District’s policy committee on April 28 recommended a narrow amendment to Policy 201 on student admissions and declined to broadly reopen the district’s kindergarten age cutoff.

The committee agreed to keep the district’s Sept. 15 cutoff date for kindergarten entry and to tighten language around early entry so that any child presented for first grade after attending kindergarten elsewhere must have attended a state‑approved kindergarten program or be a district resident. The administration will present the revision for a first reading at the board meeting on May 6.

The change responds to a handful of annual requests for early admission from families whose children’s birthdays fall shortly after the cutoff. Dr.…