My son (9) was first tested in first grade, and the results of the WISC IV and Woodcock-Johnson were at the 94th and 99th percentile, respectively. He has since never actually been in a gifted program because we lived in an area with very bad public schools and the Catholic school he went to really did not accomdate his needs. We have since moved and because he complained about being bored I asked for him to be tested again (they did not accept his old results). I just got his Cogat results, which put him at the 92nd percentile. That is not enough to qualify him as gifted (95th percentile cutoff).
I am not quite sure what to do now, I am very unhappy with the school (he is doing the same math he did at the private school over a year ago) and was planning to use the results from the Cogat to put pressure on the school or even have him moved to a different school. While our state mandates gifted testing, the schools don't actually have to offer specific gifted programs, which does not make any sense to me at all. But I worry that since he scored under the cutoff they will just keep telling me that he is fine.
He is also bilingual, I wonder whether that could have affected the test results? When I first asked his teacher about maybe accelerating him in math, she said they really don't like to do that with kids that are new. It seems to me that there should be a way to figure out whether he can handle it. Any suggestions are appreciated.
