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After Ohio’s HB114, Cincinnati Schools proposes early‑admittance policy to avoid pulling children out of planned kindergarten cohorts
Summary
Administrators described how House Bill 114 moves the kindergarten cutoff to the first day of the school year and said CPS will propose a district policy to offer early admittance (using a Jan. 1 provision of the statute) to families who expected to enroll under the old Sept. 30 rule; board members asked for implementation details and academic/fiscal impact analyses.
Administrators told the board that House Bill 114, signed into law earlier this month, moves Ohio’s kindergarten cutoff to the first day of the district school year for the 2026–27 school year, creating a potential gap for families who planned under a Sept. 30 deadline.
An administration representative summarized the change and a proposed administrative response: "HB114…makes a uniform rule across the state that school districts must use the first day of the school year…to enroll in kindergarten." The administration said it would…
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