Early Learning & Elementary Schools

Locate your child’s birthday within the range of dates to learn about program age eligibility in Long Beach Unified School District.
 

• 2021-2022 ETK/TK Map (Printable)
• Transitional Kindergarten: A Guide for Parents Brochure
• Kindergarten de Transición: Una Guía para Padres
• Transitional Kindergarten Fact Sheet
• Transitional Kindergarten LBUSD
• Transitional Kindergarten Pre School CA Overview

• CDE - Transitional Kindergarten FAQs  ­

Transitional Kindergarten is being provided as a response to 2010 legislation that changed the entry date for Kindergarten from December 2 to September 1.

Transitional Kindergarten (TK) is an exciting educational opportunity for children born in the fall. Transitional Kindergarten is the first year of a two-year program that provides children, with birthdays between September 2 and December 2, a curriculum that is age and developmentally appropriate, taught by credentialed teachers. Parents have a choice to enroll their student in Transitional Kindergarten or wait the additional year when the student is age eligible to enroll in Kindergarten.

The youngest students in a kindergarten class risk struggling academically, emotionally, and/or socially. Transitional Kindergarten ensures that children have these pivotal skills, which are foundations to successful learning, when they begin kindergarten. Transitional Kindergarten bridges the path between preschool and kindergarten. These classrooms are located throughout the city and have a 25:1 teacher to student ratio. The classes are comprised primarily of students with fall birthdays. 

Transitional Kindergarten (TK) enrollment begins at the school of residence. Attached below is a district map with the ETK/TK school sites. If the school of residence does not offer TK, those families will need to apply for School of Choice to a school that does.

If you are interested in receiving more information about Transitional Kindergarten, please review the documents below on this webpage or call the Office of the Assistant Superintendent of Early Learning & Elementary Schools at (562) 997-8247.