Hi All, I would really appreciate some input on the following schools/profile for my daughter. She�s been on an interesting educational journey thus far. A few months into K back in 2008, she was very �bored� and uninterested in going to school. Since I�d had issues with my HG older son, I knew I�d better have her tested to know what we were dealing with. I took her to Dr. Ruf and she suggested after testing that we pull her from K and homeschool her. Unfortunately, due to family circumstances, we didn�t do much �school� that year.
Here are her scores from that first test:

SB5 administered by Dr. Ruf when she was 5 yrs 8mths
NVIQ � 138
VIQ � 144
FSIQ � 140
Fluid Reasoning 135
Knowledge 131
Quantitative Reasoning 122
Visual Spatial 143
Working Memory 141
Before the start of the next year when she would have started 1st, the gifted school she was to be enrolled in decided to grade skip her straight to 2nd doing 3rd grade work. There was no achievement testing done. So this was her first experience with school. She was very behind because she works slowing and really isn�t very interested in achieving. She�s more interested in her imaginative games and time with her friends (who are very gifted themselves and some were grade skipped as well.)
She spent two years in the gifted school and assigned work several years ahead. She struggled to keep up. She barely kept her head above water and was quite turned off to school.
Fast forward to this summer. At age 8, we moved out of state. We decided it was probably best to move her back with age mates in a regular classroom. The new elementary school is very good. Many high achievers and gifted children. Known as the �private school� of the public schools in the area�. Before we made our decision to pull her back through 3rd again we decided to have her IQ AND achievement tested this time. We wanted to make sure we had the whole picture.

So this summer she took the following:
WISC-IV
VCI � 121
PRI � 133
WMI � 113
PSI � 97
FSIQ � 123
GAI � 132
Her achievement scores for the Wechsler were:
Brief Achievement � 121
Broad Reading � 118
Broad Math � 125
Broad Writing � 109

Today she brought home her Cogat results taken last month at this new school. As a preface, I�m not a fan of the Cogats. My highly gifted son has always done terribly on that test. He scores above 99% on IQ tests and achievement yet the two times he�s taken the Cogats he has scores in the very low 90�s percentile. He�s had 5 IQ tests over the years all consistently above 99 and the Cogats are much lower. So my daughter brings home the following Cogat scores today:
Verbal 88%
Non Verbal 87%
Quant. Reasoning 60%
Composite 83%
So, would you consider her gifted? I know better than to push for her to attend a full time GT program like my oldest son. That�s not her level. However, her school offers GT pull out for kids 85% and above on ability and achievement. Which of her tests take precedence here? The county will use her IQ/achievement from this summer instead of the Cogats to qualify her. I�m just wondering if I should even worry about getting her ID�ed as GT? There are so many kids in her classroom working ahead of her.
The county won�t even consider her SB5 since it�s more than 2 yrs old. They believe kids �level out� by 3rd grade. They also believe that IQ changes and anything older than 2 yrs is irrelevant. The WISC scores should be enough as long as her teacher rates her high enough on the GT rating scale.

She has had quite an adjustment this year in her new regular classroom. The district is very test dependent and she�s coming from an environment that really never tested except for the NWEA Maps. This new school does benchmarks multiple times a year and relies heavily on test scores. My daughter processes slowly but insists on rushing through rather than taking her time to get the right answers. Things have gotten better the last month or so and (knock on wood) I think she�s adjusting to the new school environment. She�s in a 3rd grade classroom where at least � the class is reading at least 5th/6th grade level or higher. It�s a great environment. She�s not interested in being high achiever #1 in class and that�s ok. However, I�m not sure how much to expect from her. With my oldest son and my other two kids never having a problem acing all their school work, I�m really not sure what to expect with this DD. How do I know when she�s doing her �best� or when she�s just not interested in trying her �best?�
I�m sorry for the long post but I really wanted to give the complete picture.

Thanks
spirited mama