There are about one per 200 children in the average school. Without special arrangements, they can feel very different from their typical classmates.
That's level 4, by percentiles level 4 kids would be 99.5%.
Now, that would work with dd12 being a level 4. She was quite different from the typical classmates and needed special arrangements (grade skipping + accelerated classes despite being the youngest in the grade pre-skip). Those arrangements have made her fit right into the middle of the pack of the accelerated math class and still left her at the top of the pack in the accelerated literacy class, but subject acceleration isn't a possibility in middle school literacy.
I'm not sure on 99.5 but I suppose she could fit there. We have plenty of acheivement scores that are in that range and her IQ, with the extended scoring, comes out somewhere around the 99th or a hair above. She's only been IQ tested once, at age 7.4, and it wasn't the ideal time for testing given some anxiety issues, so I suppose that I can't put total stock in it being the be-all-end-all of her ability, but I still have no reason to believe that she's DYS level.
I'd agree w/ others, though, that this board has been the best fit for me in terms of being able to openly dicuss dd12. It feels like a fit even if she isn't as high up as many of the other kids. The combo of being HG and being so centered and directed on what she wants to do with her life make her a force to be reckoned with
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