Depends where you live. I lived in houston and all the employers were super conservative but also used the shittiest tools and worked on mind numbingly boring problems. Now i live in SF and breakfast+lunch is catered, I can use whatever hipster technologies I want (haskell, go, etc), and no one cares that I dropped out of 9th grade due to depression.
The caveat is that meritocratic employers tend to have higher standards, so you better like programming and have some impressive personal projects to show off. Also you should study up on mathematics and algorithms as they are getting even more important for a number of reasons.
I would still recommend going to school if you have the chance. It's 4 years with no responsibilities, lots of people to make friends with and access to professors/research. I bet it would be fun to at least try it.
If you really don't want to though, no one is going to stop you. just be really good.