Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment not sure if I should pursue gifted programming

My son has recently been evaluated for gifted. He is age 5 years, 9 months. He was privately tested and scored a 127 on the WPPSI. The school tested him using the WIAT and the only information I received so far is that he does not qualify for gifted because he scored a 116 on the reading but only a 110 on the math.
Last year he was privately tested using the Woodcock-Johnson, when he was age 4 years, 7 months, and he scored a brief reading and brief math of 5-11. The school tested him using the Stanford-Binet and got a score of 109. They did, however, agree that he need enrichment in math, which has continued for this school year (he is currently in kindergarten.

I feel he is gifted, but the scores seem so erratic, so I don't know how far to push this. I have an older daughter who is gifted, whose scores were also significantly lower when tested by the school psychologist as opposed to her private test. I don't have much faith in the school.

Any suggestions?

Would the school accept private test scores? The only problem I'd see with trying to have him reevaluated privately is that it sounds like he's been tested on both the SB and the WPPSI within the past year such that it might make the question arise as to whether repeat results so shortly after the last testing are valid.

As far as pursuing gifted programming, do you feel like the math enrichment they are offering is sufficient to meet his needs right now? If so, I might just wait this year out and retest when he is older and the results more stable.

Do you have the subtest scores and index scores?

Sometimes looking at the index scores can give additional information about why a child might be underachieveing or testing inconsistently.