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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I appreciate all of the thoughts given.  What is clear to us is that it isn’t an easy situation to navigate.  What makes it most challenging, perhaps, is the fact that there are so few other instances of other children and families in the same situation.  We were told from the beginning that he is a true outlier.  The county has seen a few other children like this, but not many.  [/quote]

5th grade algebra isn't that much of an outlier in Fairfax.[/quote]

County wide, only a small handful of kids per grade level are jumped ahead more than a year.  Being one of the top 3 or 4 kids out of 14,000 would make OP's kid an outlier, but not at all an anomaly for FCPS.  [/quote]

Algebra is officially a 9th grade class.  It is more than a handful of kids per school who are this far ahead.  Many have 7th grade algebra 2 years ahead, and even 3 years ahead there's probably at least 100 in the county taking algebra in 6th grade.  [b]There have been lots of posts on this forum about 5th grade algebra, so it seems it is not that unusual, probably 10 every year across the county.[/b]
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I wouldn't assume that.  It's probably a few of the same people posting a lot.  Or people are lying.  
I would guess that it's like:
5 kids per year skipped to 5th or earlier grade algebra
100-ish in 6th grade Algebra
2000-ish in 7th grade Algebra.

Given that there are about 14,000 kids per grade level, this distribution seems pretty reasonable.  
5th grade algebra is pretty unusual and is only offered to the kids who really are outliers.  I've posted about this before, but my kid was also skipped ahead two years.  I remember that in the 4th grade, as a kid taking AAP 6th grade math, he took the 7th grade iready and scored 100 points higher than the 99th percentile cutoff line.  In WISC, he hit the test ceiling on FRI.  These are the kid FCPS is willing to skip ahead to that degree.  They aren't doing it for "regular" 99th percentile kids.  
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