You do need to ask around in your district. We are in the same state as Cricket. Unlike her area, a common "work around the cutoff" in our area is to have the child attend a non-public kindergarten, i.e. private Montessori or religious school. I also know one family that tested their kid straight into the district's lst grade gt class instead of going to kindergarten. There are no cutoff dates for first grade. I haven't met anyone who took advantage of the early access program. I've heard that the testing is much more extensive than the testing required for the gt program.
