<p>Even in less-than-affluent school districts this is happening. At our D’s high school, which is a nonranked Title 1 highschool (more than 40% low-income), there are a substantial number of 9th graders in precalc/calcA, who will be taking CalcB/C as sophomores. </p>
<p>In order to provide students working at this level four years of math, the school has added multivariate this year and is adding one or two additional levels next year. When they add those courses, the math department will be teaching 10 levels of math, with several of those levels (algebra1, geometry, algebra2, trig) at two-to-three different levels of acceleration/advancement. Staffing must be challenging for the administration. </p>