After looking at the linked visual (thanks!), I understand it now. I'm just not sure how that information is useful. I think they are assuming a normal curve when maybe it's not. Her reading score percentile was 95th and NCE was 85th which matches up with the visual, but maybe in our school district 10 percent of kids are in the top 5th percentile nationally (who knows!). It would be more useful to have THAT info. When they qualify kids for gifted programming they are using national percentile rankings which need to be about 95-98th percentile (depending on the program), but I wonder how many kids from the district fit into that.
