This is all sounding eerily familiar -- my DS6 was denied even an interview at our local HG+ public school and they rated his reading level at one grade level up, despite the fact that his scores put him in the PG range and he was reading at nearly a 5th grade level (this was the spring BEFORE he started K). Handwriting was one of the sticking points in his case as well. It's true, he wouldn't have been able to do a 2nd grade writing assignment this year (maybe not even a 1st grade one), but... ah well.