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I think they have education before Hogwarts. Maybe homeschool, maybe muggle school, maybe intro magic schools.

My guess is there were lessons in there on some of that, but they're so muggly-mundane that they'd be boring, and so they wouldn't help move the story forward at all.

So they were glossed over more than not present at all.

(That being said, it would have been fun watching Ron Weasley try and participate in a spelling competition.)

I always thought they had a good 4-5 years of school before they enter hogwarts at 11, but thinking about it now that only goes for the muggle-born.

And their jobs have hardly ever anything to do with actual magic, so they definetly need proper education.

The book is quite detailed about what gets tought though and ordinary school stuff is not in it

They start Hogwarts at eleven, so I would think they have some kind of prior education to that.

At least its never mentioned

It is mentioned that Harry went to a muggle school, it was called St. Gregory or something.

Ye, but for Ron and the other wizard childs....

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Maybe it's just done incidentally. Assuming basic literacy is taught before age 11 at home or another school, then as they're assigned to write papers on this or that they get corrected as they go. No need for an explicit "English" class.

So Harry was 11 in the first book and film, and the book was set in the year 1991.

He would have received zero homeschooling from his horrid family, they just wanted the money that came from looking after him and nothing else to do with him.

So looking at British education systems in the 1980's, he would have gone to Stage 1 "muggle" school (at age 7), and then to Hogwarts for Stage 2 (at age 11).

The foster parents would have wanted him out of the house.

Looking at British schooling systems during the timeframe of the book, they have a Stage 1 that goes from 7 to 11, equivalent of Grades 1 through 5.

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High wizard professors could've casted a spell on them which makes them instantly learn how to read and write 😅

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