Hi coveln,
Your DD sounds very much like my DS6.5 (tested really similarly, by the looks of it) except a couple of years behind yours in school. DS will be going to 1st grade at a gifted private school next year (he was in K public this year). The school believes in keeping age peers together as a homeroom throughout his time there but accelerating subjects as necessary. The only potential issue with that is his age peers will be spread across two grades: 1st and 2nd. He'll likely be the oldest in his class next year, so it's possible they might entertain accelerating him a grade if necessary, but that seems to be putting the cart before the horse for us at the moment.
But anyways... we're doing some achievement testing this summer. We're slated for the WJ-III, I think, which I believe is normed by age (I think most of them are). Qualifying to apply for DYS would be a bonus, but the primary reason we're going through it is to look for LDs (we suspect a few issues but aren't really sure).
Does her gifted school require achievement testing to consider grade or subject acceleration? My guess is that the public school would require something (they seem big on achievement testing), but even that can vary from district to district.
Last edited by George C; 05/27/15 02:26 PM.
