Welcome to the boards, M&M. aeh explained the SB scores to you - my advice is more in terms of how to approach the conversation. We found in early elementary that talking to teachers about IQ/ability scores didn't get us much of anywhere - especially in early elementary, where there are often quite a few parents advocating for their children have more challenge in school. What helped more was to have examples and/or testing showing achievement. For your meeting next week, I'd try to collect and take in examples of the math work your ds is capable of doing - if he doesn't have something comparable from school, take work he's done at home. If the school hesitates to give him the differentiation you're hoping for, request that the school do achievement testing to determine what level he's performing at (end of year curriculum tests are one way to do this).
I am also wondering - was the gifted lottery school he tested for a public school in your district or a private school? If it was public, even if he didn't get in, he most likely has a "gifted" id attached to his school record (he would have in our district). If anyone from the school where he is now questions or poo-poohs his IQ testing results, point out that he's already been identified as gifted by your school district.
I'll also add something about the art skills, which is most likely neither here nor there for now - but I have a highly visual-spatial child too
When he was your ds' age he was much like your ds - his drawings were *amazing* and he loved loved loved to build things with Legos etc. I always thought he'd continue to develop as an artist (drawing was his preferred medium) because his skills were so far out there at that age. Instead.. what looked like amazing artistic skills was really amazing visual spatial thinking. He's in high school now and he is still really talented at drawing a representation of what he sees - but he's not all that interested in art and he didn't really evolve into what I consider to be a talented artist. He's just really really good at copying on paper what he sees in real life. I hope that makes sense!
Best wishes,
polarbear
