The WISC IV and the WIAT-II were from when he was in 2nd grade. Reading comprehension has always been a struggle for him. He can read an unknown word (pronounce correctly), spell an unknown word but is completely clueless when determining the meaning from the context. These were factors discussed with the tester. Since then we have pushed Reading/English and done loads of reading comprehension exercises. These skills have improved over the years but at that point in time he was only reading and comprehending slightly above average (I should have clarified better originally).

After going back and looking at his old scores, I realized he did better in reading/English than I remember but because it has always lagged behind the math/science, I never really recognized that he wasn't just average in those areas.

Here's his scores over the years
3rd grade Explore
English 13
Math 19
Reading 16
Science 18
Comp 17

4th grade Explore
English 17
Math 24
Reading 16
Science 18
Comp 19

(I was always puzzled by the fact that there was no change for Reading and science but there is a big jump for the next year)

5th grade ACT (I bumped him up because he had pretty much maxed out in math and I really wanted to track his progression)
English 20
Math 25
Reading 21
Science 26
Comp 23

6th grade ACT
English 26
Math 33
reading 25
Science 30
Comp 29

I know Davidson doesn't list ACT scores for 5th and 6th grade but they said they would extrapolate for lower levels so I'm certain he would meet them in 5th grade as he has 2 of the subtests met for 7th graders and his comp is only 1 point low.

Anyways I know he pretty solidly hits the requirements for achievement testing. I can pull together homework assignments to create a portfolio. But I don't know how strong a presentation that will be. To me his work isn't that impressive but since I look at it every day it's quite likely my perception of normal is skewed and with him being my oldest I have nothing to really compare against.

But without the IQ numbers and without a strong recommendation, and in my opinion a "boring" portfolio because it's simply normal stuff for us, I'm just stressing that it won't be good enough. But I suppose everyone worries to some degree if their kid will make the cutoff.

But I'm glad to here the WISC numbers are sometimes just really off because my gut has always said they weren't accurate.