I'm always shocked with these districts that are so tight on the GT admission. Our local districts seem to have the opposite problem.
Up to 50% of the kids in some of our schools have GT ids and are in GT classes b/c their teachers and parents filled out behavioral forms that said they behaved gifted even without particularly high ability or achievement scores.
The ones who are in on the ability and/or achievement scores have sometimes taken the same test over and over until they got a score in the 95th percentile on any one area to qualify. And then you have kids like my younger dd whose IQ scores & WIAT more than qualify but who had to go through a panel in the district to see if they were willing to consider IQ as part of a gifted id.
You'd think that, with such high MAPS scores they might at least consider that the group ability test was an underestimation. Would they accept a private IQ test if she had that done? I'd hate to spend the $ not knowing how it will come out, but it sounds like she needs the score for advocacy purposes, so it might be worth it to see if it works out.
