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[quote=Anonymous]FWIW if you really want middle school math acceleration you should look at moving to Scarsdale for a few years, since they have an unbelievably intense math program and there's literally a policy on "skipping grades in math" on their website: https://sms.scarsdaleschools.org/78750_3

With private schools it tends to be more of a question of a) scheduling - does the schedule have enough flexibility to let a kid take math with a different grade - and b) persuading the relevant teachers and department head; most places that can do it are willing to do it for the right kid, but you do have to convince them your kid is that kid, because a whole lot of private school parents think their kids are a different level of genius than they actually are.

When changing schools with acceleration, the details of this are something you could potentially work out with the new school before accepting an offer, but there can be some issues with how the curriculum lines up - I was accelerated in 5th grade and changed schools in 10th, and my new school started BC calculus halfway through the year rather than at the start of the year, as a consequence of which I had to cool my heels taking Statistics for half a year before I could continue in math.[/quote]

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