England/Wales school - “young in the year”

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Do you regard children born end March early April as young in the academic year group?

I don’t. Both mine are end of March and I regarded them as middle of the group.

A friend of mine is insisting that her grandchild will be disadvantaged because of “being young” when their birthday is early April.

Sept - end March = 7 months
April - end Aug = 5 months

It must vary because it's heavily weighted towards Sep-Dec birthdays in my son's class. Not many during the summer term.

It does of course vary massively due to statistical variance. In my DS’s class there are only 6 children with birthdays before Easter this year. Well over half of the class have June - August birthdays.

I have no idea. Apparently, my parents were given the option to hold me back a year but decided not to.

I only really became aware of it mid way through secondary school when I realised that some children in the year below were older than me.