I'm a little confused - did she get 99% compared to 4th graders or 8th graders? Anyway if she got a 19 as a 4th grader, be ready to be open to the possibility that either she is more unusual than your thought or the range of average is quite lower than you thought.
Grinity, are you saying that a 19 on the English section is the 99th percentile for 8th graders? I didn't think a 19 was that high. My vague recall is that the 99th for 8th graders on the English section was somewhere around a 24. My oldest got a 19 or 20 on the English part of the Explore when she was 9 and I'm pretty sure that wasn't the 99th percentile.
Either way, I'd tend to agree that a 4th grader who is in the 19-ish range on the English part of the Explore (especially if her reading and writing skills are similarly strong and not just language mechanics), is going to be more HG in that area than the typical gifted kid and need acceleration even within a GT program.
Clarified above that it was compared to 8th graders--and FWIW a 19 in Reading, which on my chart shows 91% compared to 8th graders.
Carp about needing acceleration even within a GT program. I pretty much already thought this but was trying not to think about it yet. And I just know that it is going to be a big giant uphill battle. Maybe I should have her take the SAT just to see how she does to have more support for my argument?
We had dd13 take the Explore, as noted above, when she was a 9 y/o 4th grader as part of the IAS for a grade skip consideration. She took the SAT in 6th and 7th (10 & 11 y/o) and the ACT in 8th (12 y/o) thereafter. Her scores were impressively high, especially in the reading/English/writing sections but I didn't honestly see any further differentiation as a result of giving them to the school, FWIW
. What we saw was from her 19/20 English Explore @ 9 to her CR SAT score at 10 was a score around 500. I'd expect that, combined with the Explore scores you already have, the IQ scores should be enough for advocacy. If they are not, I'm not sure that I'd hold my breath on SAT scores holding more weight.
