I'd still consider a grade skip even though he is more of average age for grade rather than older for grade as I was assuming. My one who is skipped was the youngest in grade, having made a 9/15 cut off by days and my other one missed the 9/15 cut off by two weeks so we started her in a different district to get around it.
I'm sure that the issues are different for boys with being younger, but my grade skipped one feels very strongly that it was a positive for her (she's a 14 y/o 10th grader & hadn't quite turned 14 at the start of this school year).
