Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment Accessing my own school records

Wondering if anyone has had success with getting their own school records years later. I'm interested in whatever testing may be somewhere in their files, specifically IQ testing. About a month ago I emailed the district where I graduated HS in CA asking for my records and got no response. Am I missing some kind of specific language I need to be using to get what I want?

I called and asked for mine (rural California). I was too late - they shred them after 7 years. My best friend marched into the office and demanded her cume file on her 18th birthday. I wish I'd done the same.

Yeah really, that would have been the thing to do. So is shredding after 7 years standard for CA now?

I know that hasn't always been the case in my district because I worked int he office one summer and they had student files in there from 20+ years previously.

Well, maybe not, but I hope the person on the other end of the call isn't still nursing a grudge or something... Very small district.

I think she said they only retain the transcript itself. She offered to look up whether the relevant teacher was still with the district so I could ask what they remembered, but that wasn't going to help me figure out which SB test was used on me, so I gave up.

I suggest you call rather than email. Let me know if you get anything. That grudge angle sounds more likely every minute, maybe I should try again.

School records always get destroyed or lost.

The schools really don't seem to care.

And I really need early IQ testing to present my mental retardation cases.

It's the biggest hurdle I generally face.