RTE / School Admission Age Calculator

Enter your child's date of birth — get their exact age as of your state's admission cutoff date, down to the day.

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Verify before you decide. RTE and school admission age-cutoff rules are set independently by each state (and sometimes vary by school), and can change between admission cycles. The examples above are a starting point, not a guarantee — always confirm the exact cutoff date and minimum age against your own state's current official notification or your target school directly.

How this calculator works

The genuinely hard part of an age-cutoff rule isn't the rule itself — it's correctly computing a child's exact age (years, months, and days) as of an arbitrary future date, which is easy to get wrong doing it by hand. This tool automates that date math and shows the full result, while leaving the actual age criteria fully editable, since those numbers are set independently by each state and change between admission cycles.

A few real examples we found (enter your own state's actual rule if it differs):

Since implementation is decentralized, treat every preset above as a starting example, not your state's confirmed rule.

Frequently Asked Questions

No. While NEP 2020 recommends a minimum age of 6 years for Class 1 entry, implementation is decentralized — each state sets its own exact cutoff date and, in some cases, its own age band. Always verify against your own state's current notification.
Uttar Pradesh commonly uses 1 April as the reference date, requiring the child to have completed the minimum age (6 years) as of that date.
Gujarat RTE commonly uses 1 June as the cutoff date, with an age band of approximately 5 years 6 months to 6 years for Class 1 entry — narrower than a simple minimum-age-only rule.
Age-cutoff rules are set independently by each state and can change between admission cycles. Rather than risk showing you an outdated number, this tool automates the date math but lets you enter (or start from an editable example of) your own state's current rule.