Neither school seems ideal at first glance.
However, these pullouts may not be enough. Any thought of some sort of acceleration or even grade skipping?
We did this for our kid (two grades actually). Best thing we ever did. PE is awful later on in middle and high school, but who cares, really, when they're making straight A's and enjoying the challenges in everything else?
One thing I never understood are these two words, "high achieving". That's not a synonym for high IQ . Or, shouldn't be. The challenge in our case was to get our low-achieving kid, but high IQ, to become a higher achieving. They're much more so, and, believe it or not.... very confident because they know they've been advanced due to their potential. Just the opposite of what you would think with all this 'red shirting' stuff going on.