Is there a gifted coordinator at your school? If not, who gives the IQ test? Might be worth talking to that person in addition to someone at the magnet school.
Also do some research - look at the average first grade reading level and compare it to your son's. Look at first grade math online, or browse the 1st grade workbooks at the bookstore. Is it work your son can do now? The writing level of many first graders is not very high - some do still reverse letters and numbers and they are just being taught the parts of a sentence. Some already know how to write well, but a lot of them do not, including some of the "gifted" ones.
In our school, the first grade teachers have just finished reviewing the lessons from K, and the "real" first grade work seems to be starting. Your school might be about the same, so your son wouldn't have missed anything.
You do have to consider what will happen next year if you get a teacher who won't differentiate as much as the current teacher. That is an extremely important consideration, and it sounds like doing a skip now would be better than skipping first grade and going right into the magnet school.
Last edited by momoftwins; 10/18/13 08:22 AM.
