Thank you so much for your answers. There was no extended scoring. I will apply to the Young Scholars program...what are some of the most important benefits of joining? To be honest, I knew my dd loved to learn and found it easy, but I am surprised at her score. This does explain some of her behavior and interests. Homeschooling??? I feel completely unqualified and would ruin her! Can she be ok in an excellent private (just got accepted and will attend next year)?
My kids are not DYS, so hopefully some of the parents whose kids are will chime in with info, but I would absolutely apply in your instance. I have one dd who is HG, but not PG and another who maybe PG, but is so erratic that it is hard to tell. If your dd does stay in public school, they will help you with advocacy and working with the school. Even if you don't wind up needing that, there is a great deal of support from having other families with whom to commiserate and draw ideas from.
In re to the private school, what do they have to offer her? Can they grade skip her, subject accelerate, provide individual work? Even my older dd, who is HG, was far beyond the level of the other kids in her GT class. She has done well with a single grade skip and was subject accelerated in the past prior to skipping. I'd expect that your dd, like others have said, will be the most able child even in the private school. I wouldn't expect her to have intellectual peers in her grade, so they are going to have to provide more than the standard fare for her. Give it a shot, though! It may work out depending on how flexible they are.
In re to homeschooling, no you won't ruin her! You are also probably quite bright if your dd is that bright. She is your biological child, right ;-)? Brain wiring is somewhat heritable. While she may be more able than you by somewhat, I'd bet that you are pretty able yourself and certainly more able than most of the teachers she will have in school. Why couldn't you teach her? Sure, you'd have to figure out what she's supposed to know at different ages, but with kids this bright, even if you don't do it perfectly, they are still going to be ahead. That seems to be why a lot of the public schools aren't doing much for the most able kids -- they'll still be at least at grade level even if they aren't taught much of anything.
As her mom, you care a lot more than anyone else will. You will find a way to make it work if you do wind up going the homeschool route & there are a lot of resources out there! I got from our local district a few years back a copy of the grade level expectations for various grades. They cost me something like $5 and were bound together in little booklets for grades K-3, 4-6, etc.
