pre-ilvermorny education

Founded in 1986, Ardeevin is like an Elementary school, offering education to witches and wizards aged 5-11, before they attend Ilvermorny. Unlikely Ilvermorny it is only a day school, and students travel via floo or side-apparition with their parents every weekday morning, and are picked up again in the afternoon.

Most young witches and wizards now attend Ardeevin before Ilvermorny, although some are still homeschooled or attend no-maj schools by the choice of the parents. In the case of no-maj borns, they still attend no-maj elementary schools (they do not receive their letters until age 11, like at Hogwarts).

Ardeevin gives the children a basic education of reading, writing, English and math skills, as well as things like physical education, geographical knowledge and no-maj studies. As young witches and wizards do not receive their wands until they arrive at Ilvermorny, there is no magical education at Ardeevin. They do, however, have Creature Care classes which involve some of the more docile, domesticated and non-dangerous magical creatures.