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Never mind, found it: http://www.sowashco.org/files/department/rea/2015NormsReport_Reading.pdf

I asked a similar question a while ago. My daughter at the beginning of 4th grade got a score that was basically off the chart even for 7th graders. I just couldn't see how that's possible given that I know what really advanced 7th graders can do (I have an older child who is strong in math so I know what he was doing in 7th grade). I got different answers when I asked around. Our teacher said that the NWEA score can't be used as an indicator for grade levels; some in this forum said that it can. I think that both were correct: within the "band" of the test that the child used, the score can be an indicator of grade level. But the score can't be used this way across bands. The score indicates how solidly one grasps the concepts, but not necessarily how many concepts one knows.

We didn't find the NWEA scores useful for our kids in any way. If a child showed weaknesses in certain areas, teachers can tell from the scores and help the child focus on these areas. But if a child showed overall mastery of all the concepts, we find that the teachers tend to do nothing extra (at our school, of course).

Thank you for your input. I am waiting to see if the school can give us his scores (he just finished reading test yesterday and not sure about the score) before the teach-parent conference late in this month, so we can start talking options with the school. I am hoping the school can do something for him. Anything extra or advanced would be better than what he's learning now. I feel like the time he's in school is not being utilized in terms of academic learning. Good thing is that he has been improving his social skill at school.

That's the doc that I found most useful. Appendix C starting at pg 66, has specific percentiles for comparison.

that is a very high score regardless😀. Another thing to look at is the mean and standard deviation...if I remember right, that would be around 3 standard deviations from the mean for his age or 99.8-99.9th percentile.

Received my DS6's MAP test report and he did get 213 on math and 207 on reading, placed him at 99 percentile for both. His school is currently working on a format for his individual academic plan. I am very hopeful that the school will come up with the good plan for him so he's actually being challenged in these subjects. We don't want him to skip grades due to his maturity and social skills. He also needs to learn other subjects (social studies, science, etc.) other than math and reading at his grade level.

Thank you all for your inputs and advice. Great to be in this forum :-)