Hello everyone! We recently had our 4 1/2 year old tested with the WPPSI, and she scored a 139 FSIQ (99.5th percentile), with a 141 VIQ and 135 PIQ (Processing speed was low - 110 - due to perfectionist tendencies, which I expected). While it's my understanding that her scores do not indicate that she's HG, we are still a little nervous about what to do for kindergarten next year.
We moved to our current district when I was pregnant because of the school system's reputation and excellent test scores, but we didn't consider checking out gifted programs at that point. After observing a kindergarten classroom last week, I'm not so sure we made a good choice. While our district is in an upper middle class suburb, they appear to have very little in the way of gifted programs. For the two elementary schools in our area (about 600 kids), there is one half time gifted teacher - and they don't identify kids before 3rd grade. Even worse, when I asked how many 3rd graders were in their program, they told me "One." ONE?
Anyway, we're now second-guessing our school decision, and I wondered if anyone out there had advice for us - our daughter isn't on the extreme end of giftedness, but I can tell just from observing the K classroom that she already knows a large majority of what they were doing. We have the option of a private Montessori school, but it's expensive (although when I observed there, I loved it). In your experience, would a kid at her level do okay in our public school without gifted services?
