Entry age for kindergarten: A child entering kindergarten shall be no less than age five on or before September 30.
Entry age for first grade: A child entering first grade shall be no less than six on or before September 30. No child shall be eligible to attend first grade without having attended an approved kindergarten program.
Any transfer pupil applying for admission who has been legally enrolled as a first-grade pupil in another state and who will be six years of age no later than December 31 of the current school year may be enrolled in the Murfreesboro City Schools.
Any child applying for admission who has been legally enrolled in a state-approved kindergarten in another state during the preceding school year and who could have enrolled in the first grade in that state in the current school year may be enrolled in the first grade in the Murfreesboro City Schools providing the child will be six years of age on or before December 31 of the current year.
