Well, I would confirm with whatever schooling you are considering for after K (ie 1st grade) to make sure they will take him in 1st after having completed K at the private school, even if he is only 5.
I know you're asking about the testing, but if early k is the goal of the testing, I thought you'd want to know that some of us have had more of a problem getting our kiddos into 1st or 2nd than early k. (We had this problem last year...)
His scores will obviously be more stable once he's 6 or so...
Good point. I really had not given the whole thing much thought. I was sort of planning on just letting him start public school kindergarten and worry about what else needs to happen at that point. I guess I was just thinking that I might as well let him enter the private K - which is usually full of 4 year olds that missed the cut-off by a few weeks (he would be younger). In our state you can enter K if your birthday is after the deadline but before 12/31 (I believe), but you have to be evaluated and accepted. I was told that some of the kids out of this private K will just enter public K or 1st grade, depending on thier development.
Then again...maybe he won't test as gifted and none of this will matter!
