I'm just starting my third year at uni and I'm not even 20 yet. It's not uncommon to finish highschool at 17 here, it just depends when you're born.
You start school after you turn 5, so if you turn 5 late in the year, basically any time after May, you don't advance from the first "Reception" year of school until the following year. If you were born in September 1995 you'd start school in Reception at the end of the year 2000, repeat Reception in 2001, then move on to "year 1" in 2002. I was born in 96 and turned 5 in March of 2001, so I did enough of Reception year in 2001 to go straight on in 2002. Some smart kids don't repeat the first year and finish highschool at 16, but conversely some kids who started at the same time as me did the entire first year twice because they were dumb.
e: Jesus. I hope you took notes on that because you better bet your ass there will be a test.
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