2. K-5 gifted-only magnet school. Unfortunately this is in a town where people pay for coaching so their preschoolers will test into gifted programs. And brag about it. I'm not a fan of being around people who think of giftedness as a symbol of social status.
Test prep, short of outright cheating (obtaining a test form in advance, for example), usually does not raise scores drastically. Suppose the IQ test cutoff is 130 for this school, and half the kids are really 120+ IQ kids who have been coached and the other half are genuine 130+ IQ kids. The average IQ will still be higher than in the regular public schools, so this is where I would want to send a gifted child.
