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I would say with homeschooling, you are really able to work above level anyhow. so at this point, I wouldn't see the need to move him up a grade...but just give above level work. Chances are even if you moved him up to 2nd, he would not be doing 2nd grade work anyhow. That is just with homeschooling though.

For us DS6 is in a public school. He turns 7 in July. He skipped K and went into 1st last year and is in 2nd technically this year. But he does 4 grade reading in his classroom and he goes to a 4th grade classroom at another school for math, and is also enriched to do 5th grade too so will be in 6th for math next year. He does amazingly well with all of this. Whenever someone asks his grade we say 2nd (although sometimes my son will say '2nd and 4th)...but then it gets confusing. Yes my child is chronologically in 1st, but is in 2nd doing 4th, LOL. For sports they go by age for baseball and that is all he plays at this point. Sometimes he can get into programs in the area for older kids when I have told them that he does 4th grade math. Good luck, and good luck with the DYS application : )