I called county on 12/18, it was 130 for both NNAT and COGAT tests this year.

The alternative would be to do outside supplementation and lots of extra curriculars. That's what my parents did when I as a child and there was no such thing as G&T programs (at least here I lived). If you otherwise like the public school and the child wants to stay with his/her friends, this could work and would probably be cheaper than private.

As a practical matter, I think this is really difficult to do. I had this problem with my 1st-grader last year; he was bored to death at school. But my kids get off the bus (public school) at 4:20pm, and after a full day in school, my son really needed to run around and be outside playing. He had sports practices many nights, and we like to eat dinner together as a family most nights. So I decided I wasn't taking him to Score or some such "academic" extracurricular. The school should have been meeting his needs. But to find academic challenges outside of school almost would have seemed like a punishment for him.

8:25, I am disheartened that your kids did not get in with those WISC scores! My dd had a full-scale WISC score of 130 and she DID get in (as part of the screening pool, so we did not self-refer or appeal). I will be referring my son, though, so that information is scaring me, as I don't think pulling him out of our public school is an option for us. He would be devastated if we moved him.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What happens to the kids who are in the 90th percentile or higher? It seems like they sort of get pushed out even though that is still waaay better than average.[/quote]
You put them in private school, because the public won't meet their needs. We had our kids tested independently (WISC IV), got IQ of 128 and 133, and they didn't qualify (on appeal). We knew they were much more capable than the work they were getting, so we moved to private for a few years. Middle and High school are great for us back in public school.[/quote]

The alternative would be to do outside supplementation and lots of extra curriculars. That's what my parents did when I as a child and there was no such thing as G&T programs (at least here I lived). If you otherwise like the public school and the child wants to stay with his/her friends, this could work and would probably be cheaper than private. If the private schools in DC are anything like the people on the private school forum, I want to avoid them like the plague.

[quote=Anonymous]What happens to the kids who are in the 90th percentile or higher? It seems like they sort of get pushed out even though that is still waaay better than average.[/quote]
You put them in private school, because the public won't meet their needs. We had our kids tested independently (WISC IV), got IQ of 128 and 133, and they didn't qualify (on appeal). We knew they were much more capable than the work they were getting, so we moved to private for a few years. Middle and High school are great for us back in public school.

What happens to the kids who are in the 90th percentile or higher? It seems like they sort of get pushed out even though that is still waaay better than average.

Wow. A cutoff of 132 is super high. That would put the kids in that group in a percentile rank of about 99% -- according to the chart which was mailed home with the test results.

It does seem really high, but I think it's consistent with past practice. My DD had a 134 (98th percentile) on one section of the CogAT and that's what got her into the screening pool two years ago, when the cutoff was also 132. Her composite score on the CogAT, however, was 128, which is 96th percentile - hard to believe that score does not qualify for the screening pool, but it doesn't!!

Clearly there are kids in the Center who do not have those scores, though - they're not all in the 99th percentile.

Wow. A cutoff of 132 is super high. That would put the kids in that group in a percentile rank of about 99% -- according to the chart which was mailed home with the test results.

It was 132 last year. We (teachers) haven't been told what the cutoff is for this year, yet.

22:55 here. I got nothing today (no scores or note). We must be at different schools.

OP here.

I got one envelope with scores from both tests.

I have a 4th grader in the Center and I think that's how I got her scores also, and the same day, the weekly folder came home from school with a note showing the cutoff score. I don't remember what the cutoff was (it was 2 yrs ago). I saved her scores and other stuff in a file, but I tossed the note since she met the cutoff.

No idea what it was last year since I did not have a 2nd-grader last year. 132 sounds about right - I think it was somewhere near that the year before.

My guy has been home sick for 2 days so if they sent something home, he didn't get it. I had DD go to his classroom today to pick up his homework, but she didn't bring anything else home.

21:25, if you get the note tonight and can post the cutoff score, I would appreciate it!

Did you get scores for both tests or just one? Last year, we got two sets of scores: one for the NNAT (around this time) and one for the CoGAT soon after the break or over the break. And then there was a separate letter which told you whether or not your child had met the cutoff. I believe last year's cutoff score for the screening pool was 132 on any suppart of the CoGAT or on the NNAT.

21:25 here. I have a second grader. I haven't gotten anything by mail or sent home. Tomorrow is the night the yellow folders come home, though, so if there is a note with the cut off, it will probably come in that. I'll post if I see it.

The scores come in the mail from FCPS.

We were notified of the cutoff score (in the past) by a note that came home from school. But I thought I got it the same day as the scores last time, and this time I haven't gotten anything and wondered if anyone else got it.

How do the scores come? By mail or does the child bring them home?

We just got our scores - does anyone know what the cutoff is for the screening pool this year?

(I seem to remember from 2 yrs ago that the school sent home a letter telling us the cutoff score around the same time that we received the test scores.)