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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Indulge me, pls. if dcum is not for unsupportable, impossible-to-verify wonderings like this, then what is ...

Reading a recent thread on the Fairfax AAP program vs MoCo HGC program got me wondering. It seems most kids in those programs (at least, the ones with parents responding on dcum) have IQs of 135 and above. Those parents were blase about it, but those are really high scores for an ENTIRE class of kids. At my kids' private (a great k-8 school), I'd say there is a mix of abilities - plenty of really smart, a few off the charts smart, and plenty "regular" (whatever that means).

So what do you think is a typical IQ of kids in big 3 schools? I mean true IQs, not what their preK entrance test scores were (because my own kids were tested as having 99% IQs on the wippsi in pre-K, and neither fleshed out at that at the ages of 8 and 11, which are more reliable ages for wisc testing). [/quote]

If what you're looking for is a way to compare kids from different private elementary schools, then maybe the best way is to compare how they do on the ERB tests that most of them seem to take in 3rd and 4th grades.  I guess you could compare the stanines of how students stack up against some common population, such as suburban public schools or independent schools.  If an average child at your K-8 is hitting the 7th stanine, and average children from those big 3 schools are also hitting the 7th stanine, then they're likely pretty comparable.  The hard part will be figuring out what the average stanine for each school is.[/quote]

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