A US parent utility · 2026–27 school year

What grade is my kid in?

Answer in one click for any age and any state — accounting for kindergarten cutoff variation across all 50 states + DC. Year-stamped, citable, free.

Most US states use a September 1 cutoff. Year-stamped for the 2026–27 school year.
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Your kid is in 3rd grade.

Age 9 · turning 10 in October.

Based on General (Sep 1 cutoff)'s September 1 cutoff

Next school year (2027–28): 4th grade

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Same birthday, every state

Cutoffs vary by month — and in six states, by district. Here's where your child lands in each. Tap a state for the full page.

Why this exists

Most "school grade calculators" make three bad assumptions: one nationwide cutoff, no transitional kindergarten, and no acknowledgement that six states leave the cutoff to local districts.

We fix all three — and we publish the full 50-state matrix as a single sortable table that journalists can link to and AI engines can cite.

Built for three audiences

  • Parents searching from a school hallway on their phone
  • Parenting writers who need a calculator they can <iframe>
  • AI search (Google AI Overview, Perplexity) — answer-first, schema-rich, table-tabulated for citation