Also agree that the standard testing may not help you much. In PA, the school must administer assessment for GT services on your request which should include IQ and AT or equivalent. Our school refused to do AT on K age kids. We had to argue to get PLEP done somehow and they finally did curriculum based assessments. More than anything else (including IQ scores), it was the curriculum based assessments that helped us. Schools, particularly "good" schools, tend to be sure that their curriculum is so advanced that it will challenge even very bright kids with a little differentiation. Getting actual scores on their own end-of-grade assessments in math a few years ahead and reading specialist grade levels in reading finally ended the whole conversation about just having regular GT pullouts.
I spoke to a mom recently whose DS is the only one in the history of our HUGE district ever to be accelerated. SHe said you must, must get assessment based on your school's end of the year test. She had her 5th grader take end of the year 6th grade assessment which he aced, so he was skipped to 7th for math w/ advanced students (7/8 combo).
And I think our school district falls into the "good" schools which think their curriculum is so demanding, it's good enough for all.
