that smart. Staying with his age mates is a good thing, except that he's so far ahead of them intellectually and academically.

I'm glad that my two were very smart, but absolutely not in this young man's league.

Missouri

I have known some very, very bright people in my life, but having an extremely high IQ isn't the qualifier of what makes someone smart. It's what you do with it. I think maybe this young man is setting his personal standard a little bit high - "something special" is more than sufficient, really - but good for him, recognizing that it is his to make of it what he will.

See, the problem is that God gave man a brain and a penis and only enough blood to run one at a time. - Robin Williams

I went to college and earned three degrees, but nobody would give me opportunities to use my bachelor's and doctorate. I know people that told lies about me so I wouldn't get work and other backstabbers. There were probably other people blocking me that I never knew about. A lot of people don't like smart people because it might make them look bad by comparison. America is all about mediocrity, as far as I have seen in the workplace.

So will he have opportunities to go to college and be employed to use his talents?

My IQ when I was five was much higher than you need to be in Mensa. Mensa is 2 standard deviations above normal (130) and it's the top 2%. Mine was three standard deviations above normal and that is one person in a thousand.

I'm retired, because I cannot work with idiots.

This is not directed at you personally, but some people who score very high on IQ tests are remarkably deficient in common sense. Let's hope this boy isn't one.

He's a couple years older.
I googled him and it looks like he is doing some studying in Canada

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/hamilton-county/2013/09/18/college-in-canada-is-next-step-for-westfield-boy-genius-jacob-barnett-family/2834181/

He went to the Hayden Planetarium when he was nine and insisted he wanted to be an astrophysicist. He has talked about the fact that since he was big and African-American, he was expected to be an athlete. All the teachers said he couldn't do it because he was black and blacks supposedly didn't go into science. Carl Sagan invited him up to Cornell and showed him the astrophysics department.

"It is remarkable what can be accomplished when you are surrounded by people who believe in you, people whose expectations are not set by the short-sighted attitudes of society--people who help to open doors of opportunity, not close them."

--Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ph.D. upon receiving his doctorate

There is video on Youtube of Dr. Tyson talking about the great impact Carl Sagan had on him and the interest Professor Sagan took in him.