<p>That is weird - it seems unnecessarily protracted. At our school the usual honors sequence is this:
Alg 1 (8th)
H Geometry (9th)
H Alg 2 (10th)
H Trig/Precalcu (11th) - my older son’s class started on Calculus in April, my younger son’s class started on it in January and actually took the AB Calc exam in June (too late to count though!)
AP Calc BC (12th) though a fair number chicken out and just do AB Calc.</p>
<p>There’s generally a half dozen or so kids who either start Alg 1 in 7th or take Precalc in the summer so that they have run a Multvariable Calc class for seniors for the last few years. Prior to that they found courses to take at the local colleges or took AP Stats.</p>