24 June, 2021

Age guidelines

Read about the age guidelines for Compass International School Doha to help identify your child's age group for a school at one of our campuses.

Your child’s age *birthday before 1st September that year	Our school year	School section	Curriculum followed	Corresponding Grade in US education system	Corresponding Grade in Qatari education system
3 - 4 years	Early Years 1	Primary	English National Curriculum and IPC	Pre-school	Kindergarten 1
4 - 5 years	Early Years 2	Primary	English National Curriculum and IPC	Pre-KG	Pre-Kindergarten
5 - 6 years	Year 1	Primary	English National Curriculum for English and Maths, and the International Primary Curriculum (IPC)	Kindergarten	Kindergarten
6 - 7 years	Year 2	Primary		1^stGrade	Grade 1
7 - 8 years	Year 3	Primary		2^ndGrade	Grade 2
8 - 9 years	Year 4	Primary		3^rdGrade	Grade 3
9 - 10 Years	Year 5	Primary		4^thGrade	Grade 4
10 - 11 years	Year 6	Primary		5^thGrade	Grade 5
11 - 12 years	Year 7	Secondary	English National Curriculum	6^thGrade	Grade 6
12 - 13 years	Year 8	Secondary		7^thGrade	Grade 7
13 - 14 years	Year 9	Secondary		8^thGrade	Grade 8
14 - 15 years	Year 10	Secondary	IGCSE	9^thGrade	Grade 9
15 - 16 years	Year 11	Secondary	IGCSE	10^thGrade	Grade 10
16 - 17years	Year 12	Secondary	A & AS Levles & International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme	11^thGrade	Grade 11
17 - 18 years	Year 13	Secondary		12^thGrade	Grade 12

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