The most common time for ADD Diagnosis

ADHD is most often recognized and referred for treatment
in third grade. This is when elementary school kids most often
hit the "academic wall."

In third grade they are expected to do more and more
work on their own, and they are given more homework to do as
well. There are also many referrals in seventh grade, or when
the child leaves Elementary School for Junior High School, with
several classes and several teachers.

There are times when elementary students find ways to
compensate in their younger years. However, once they move
to the higher grades – junior high – they find that these same
coping strategies just don’t work anymore.