Skipping a Grade in School?
This will probably vary from state to state, and possibly even within states by school district policy, but generally it is possible for a student to skip ahead a grade if that student is extremely capable. That said it is extremely rare. One of my daughters has always been at the top of her class, and met all of the qualifications for our school district to skip a grade, but fell short of the cut-off for a magnet school. We were discouraged from having her skip a grade because the school administration felt that 1.) the other members of her class benefited from her presence in the class, and 2.) she would miss things from the scope and sequence of the curriculum she had skipped. We did not move her ahead at that time, but later decided to homeschool. She is now attending a charter school and has advanced the extra grade. (Meanwhile, her older sister decided to live with her biological father for 6 months, came back and enrolled in the same charter school. Because she had missed a lot
