I am in CA too - no gifted testing until 3rd grade. We have a private testing result which helped for placement in a mixed grade class in our PS for K. DS was doing mostly 1st grade work and that was not enough acceleration. We moved him to a private school that provides very challenging academic work for 1st. I have more peace with the situation now - but he might need more acceleration which is not possible at this school. We afterschool intensively at about 4th grade level. But, we cannot keep this up in the long run. So, I am looking for gifted schools and tutors who can afterschool at a faster pace. We have DS in challenging extracurriculars like chess club, piano, mental math etc in addition to sports. And we try to send him to science camp in the summers.
My advise is to keep enriching and accelerating outside of school hours. That is the only thing that worked in our situation because we cannot homeschool.
