Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20170802095306/@comment-2112031-20170807183209

Zikimura wrote: The Wikia Editor wrote: Sharingan91 wrote: Elveonora wrote: I believe that in the Narutoverse the Ninja Academy can really last only 1 year, as there have been characters who were said to have graduated in just 1 year. Basically, if a student is highly exceptional, then after 1 year he/she may become Genin, if not, more years are spent in the Academy. The academy has changed, this is said in the first episodes. So the course can last less because we are in peace I don't see why, just because it's a time of peace, the academy would suddenly start graduating students after only one year. The fact that certain exceptional students have managed to graduate very quickly in the past doesn't apply here, as we're talking about the entire class graduating simultaneously.

The changes to the academy that were mentioned referred to the fact that the academy now requires proper academic scores to graduate, rather than focusing mostly on Ninjutsu skills. The fact that the academy has expanded their curriculum should, if anything, cause the students to take even longer to graduate.

For reference, Naruto and Sasuke started attending the Academy at age 8 or younger (they were already attending before the Uchiha Clan Massacre), and graduated at age 12. She said it CAN last for only a year, as there HAVE BEEN characters that WERE SAID TO HAVE graduated in 1 year or less. Like Itachi for example. Not that everyone does it. Except that we are talking about the average length it takes for an average class to graduate, bringing up exceptional outliers who managed to graduate in a year has nothing to do with my original statement.

I stated that it was highly unlikely that the entire class would graduate after only a year, she replied that exceptions exist and I replied that those exceptions are, in fact, exceptions, rather than the norm.

If we follow the timeline presented in the Konohagakure Chronology, then Boruto and the others attended the Academy for at least 3 years. If we take Iwabee's statement in Episode 2 at face value, then they attended the Academy for a total of 6 years.

We're never given the standard age of when students start attending. We do know that Kakashi started at age 4 and graduated at age 5. Yamato graduated at age 6 and Itachi at age 7. It's not unreasonable to assume that Boruto and the others started attending at age 6 and graduated at age 12.