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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WPPSI scores are enormously unreliable indicators of future "stable" IQ.

High-IQ and high-achieving are not the same thing.

A student who is high-IQ but not high-achieving may do better at a private that is able to provide support for whatever issues are limiting achievement -- poor executive function, needing more individualized attention, doing better in a small classroom with fewer distractions, etc.

A student who is exceptionally or profoundly gifted might also do better at a dedicated school for the gifted.[/quote]

Agreed. Most local privates look at the WISC for IQ and Woodcock-Johnson for level of achievement/performance, along with grades for older students. I’ve seen speculation about WISC thresholds between 125-130 for some, but none ever seemed credible. Probably around 120, give or take a few points.

But those students who are highly-gifted—that is, two standard deviations above the mean for IQ—can be challenging to educate. Not the same as high performing students, who can learn more comfortably in local private and public schools. [/quote]

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