Title 12
EDUCATION AND HEALTH
 

Part I.  Education

Chapter 1.  Provisions of
General Applicability

Section 12.101.  School Year.
Section 12.102.  Attendance.

      Section 12.101.  School Year.
      The school year for all schools consists of no fewer than six hundred fifty hours of classroom instruction for first and second graders, and no fewer than eight hundred hours of classroom instruction for third graders and no fewer than nine hundred hours of classroom instruction for fourth through twelfth graders.  The Director of the Department of Education establishes beginning and ending dates of the school year to suit Government school needs and customs.

Background
Amended by State Law 4-121.

      Section 12.102.  Attendance.
      A person attends a public or private school from his sixth through his fifteenth years, or until his graduation from elementary school, whichever occurs earlier, unless excluded from school or exempted from attendance by the Department of Education.  A student's first year of schooling is at the beginning of the school year in which he reaches the age of six on or before September thirtieth of the year.  The Department of Education may delay a students entry in school for one year if it cannot accommodate the student because of inadequate facilities or an insufficient number of personnel.