I am hoping for subject acceleration in LA for my DD8 next year and it sounds like our school might, might do it. But DD8 is probably a good candidate for a grade skip. I have not been able to track down the Iowa Acceleration Scale materials (at least not without buying my own-ugh) but I am guessing that she would be a good candidate-except that she doesn't want to, and that my DS11 assures me the grade ahead of her is full of "stinkers."
Her WIAT scores were normed for 2nd grade (where she is an older 2nd grader based an August birthday and July cutoff at our school) and were DYS level. They were also age normed for 3rd grade (where she could be based on age) and her lowest composite for third grade was 128 in math. Her LA composites were 134, 136 and 158 when normed against current third graders. She did not hit any of the grade based ceilings for the WIAT. I am not sure if this means what I think it means but the numbers seem to say her academic achievement is already pretty high for a third grader. Will she be wasting her time with just subject acceleration if she doesn't skip?
Sigh. I wish there was an app or something to predict the best course, as polarbear has suggested. Put in the numbers and out comes the right decision.
