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No way to know right now.

By the way, it seems that their years might start at the beginning of the actual year and end near the end of the year itself. Kind of like how colleges have spring and fall semesters, in a way.

If I've done my math right... Ruby was about to begin her third year of Signal at the start of the show. We know it was right before the beginning of the school year because Ruby said Yang was starting at Beacon "this year" and when Ruby and Yang got there, it was the first day. Ruby said she had two years left of Signal. So... there you go, she was about to start her third year of Signal.

She was 15, so assuming that Signal goes for 4 years, students begin combat academy at the age of 13. Ruby had to have been at Signal for at least a year at that point, since she had forged her scythe there and wasn't a newbie at wielding it.