Indigo, Thanks for all your insight. The links are also really helpful. Your point about a 'reluctant nominator' hits the nail on the head. But I don't entirely blame them. I expected him to be in the mildly gifted range, and his scores were quite shocking to me. We still keep wondering if there is a mistake of some sort in his scores, because he seems far off from our perceived notion of what highly gifted kids look like.
Thanks everyone for all the help. We have quite a few options there!
For now, we are leaning towards moving to the full time gifted program at a different School district. It may at the very least provide a more challenging curriculum and peers that he can connect with.
