Friday is the deadline to apply for kindergarten in NYC
If your child will be 5 years old any time in 2013, the deadline to submit an application for kindergarten is Friday, March 1.
You may apply to as many schools as you would like, but you must submit an application – available online at http://schools.nyc.gov/ChoicesEnrollment/Elementary/HowtoApply.htm — to each school.
While the 5-year-old birthday cutoff is December 31, 2013 for public school kids (meaning that up to a quarter of entering kindergarten classes are actually under 5 years old), some private schools require children to be 5 by the time they start school in September.