{"id":620,"date":"2026-09-04T16:59:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T08:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/case-studies\/spain-an-august-birthday-and-a-mismatched-school-year\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T21:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:48:15","slug":"spain-an-august-birthday-and-a-mismatched-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/spain-an-august-birthday-and-a-mismatched-school-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain \u2014 an August birthday and a mismatched school year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xcasenote\">The case at a glance<\/div>\n<div class=\"xsum\">\n<p><strong>Client Background<\/strong>A Madrid family with a daughter born in August, who is at the top of her year in Spain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Client Plan<\/strong>To move to Singapore without disrupting her schooling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Problem<\/strong>An August birthday can land a child in an entirely different cohort.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How We Helped<\/strong>We mapped her birth date against the Singapore year before choosing between the government route and an international school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"xdiv\"><span>The full story<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"xfull\">\n<p><strong>Client Background<\/strong>A Madrid family with a daughter born in August. In Spain she is at the top of her year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Client Plan<\/strong>To move to Singapore without disrupting her schooling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Problem<\/strong>An August birthday can land a child in an entirely different cohort.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How We Helped<\/strong>Singapore places international students by age against its own year structure, and AEIS decides the level. In a January-start system an August birthday can land a child in a different cohort entirely, and families arriving mid-northern-year often find a child repeating six months or skipping them. We mapped her birth date against the Singapore year before choosing between the government route and an international school running a September calendar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Outcome<\/strong>The family chose an international school on a September calendar. She entered the cohort she would have been in at home \u2014 no repeated half-year, no skipped one, and no mid-year gap in schooling.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education \u00b7 Singapore \u00b7 School placement<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-client-case-studies","category-singapore-education","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xinran-international.com\/cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}