@CountingDown the same thing happened with my girls though they are 4 years apart. For my eldest at the same school my 8th grader is at now the entire class did algebra 1 in 8th grade and depending on how they did was what class they started high school in and what level. Now for my current 8th grader all the kids do prealgebra in 8th grade.
They have the same teacher in math for 7&8th grade. She felt my daughter and several other kids were very capable of doing algebra 1 this year but the school said just 10 kids didn’t justify a class so no go. At that point I accepted that my daughter was going to take algebra 1 in 9th grade. Only then I learned that they switched to math 1, 2, 3 so instead she will start in math 1. Then the 8th grade teacher said she is going to have an after school math class for the students who are interested. Right now I know my daughter stays after one day a week for extra math but I’m not yet sure if that will work for math 1. The high school decided that math 1 would not be offered as an honors class so pretty much all the 9th graders take math 1 college prep.