There are options but a as a 9th grader your will need parental support.
- You can look at early college or early entrance. This can happen in two ways. One is to look for specific programs that offers students the opportunity to attend college with other students who are high school age. University of California Los Angeles, for example, takes students as young as 11. But they have to show they are ready. Here is a list.
http://cty.jhu.edu/imagine/resources/college_entrance.html
If you don’t want to do a program, some colleges will allow you to start as a traditional student but early. You would have to check each individual college for their policy on early entrance.
- Independent study private programs. These are high school programs that are not officially homeschooling. Instead they are schools that are either distance or online. Oak Meadow had an independent study program that had been around for years. Calvert has a newer program that I think started this year.
- You can discuss the option of duel enrollment with your school administrators. Each school handles this differently. In our district duel enrollment is free for local high school students.
If you are set on leaving high school, then you will need to put in the work to find alternatives. If you are mature enough to leave high school early you can show that by doing the research and come up with alternatives rather than complaining.