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Your son definitely has the skill requirements for a 4-year-old.
You can certainly go ahead and skip the pre-K. With his abilities he will do fine in K.
I agree with you that he could be bored in pre-K, but if the teaching is good he will (and should) be accommodated. Plus the social interactions will maintain his interest, and he will be a good example/helper to the other kids.
My daughter is in a Montessori pre-K and does her reading/arithmetic with the K kids (the class is mixed), as she was at about the same level as your son and was bored with the pre-K. She loves it. She'll be having her 5th birthday on Sunday and five of her classmates will be there.
Here in Florida pre-K is a formal part of public school; all schools begin with pre-K, essentially for the reasons
listed by dtheriault.
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