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[quote=Anonymous]Hi OP,
Just wanted to say that any school in McLean, VA or Janney or Key among the D.C. neighborhood schools should be great for your child. He'll find a lot of advanced and/or gifted kids (NOT the same thing) in those schools who have motivated parents. I'm not really familiar with the charter schools in D.C. but there should also be a lot of those that fit the bill. There are probably a lot of other schools in the area that would also be great but these are the really obvious ones I can think of.
On testing... in case the neuropsych's post was unclear you should know the WJ is an achievement test and at this age parent involvement/teaching/whether the kid went to preschool/etc. really influences the outcome of this test. 
The RIAS does measure intellectual ability (IQ) but as the neuropsych pointed out they usually want WISC around here.

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I'm not worried about him being &quot;normal&quot;. I want him to enjoy going to school. His scores seemed quite good to the people who assessed him... I don't know anything about the tests and their reliability, and haven't had time to read up on them. (It seems like they make a lot of conclusions based on a couple of hours of testing, of a four-year old!) Woodcock-Johnson III: achievement (99), reading (99), math (98), writing (&gt;99.9), academic knowledge (81). RIAS VIX (99.74), NIX (58), CIX (95). So scores all over the board on the second one.[/quote]

OP, as a neuropsychologist I want to point out that there is some confusion about the testing. You would never say someone is gifted based on achievement scores and most schools want the WISC. Research has also shown RIAS scores tend to be higher than the WISC. If the RAIS NIX (reasoning and problem solving in the absence of any requirement for prior knowledge) was really 58 (and this isn't a typo) then you have a significant discrepancy and he needs to be evaluated further. [/quote][/quote]

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