Exceptionally (Level Four) and Profoundly Gifted (Level Five)

What’s the Difference?

Testing specialist giving a parent the testing results.

First, the tables below will help you navigate the profiles of the Level Five subjects and their school years. I’ve also linked the tables about personality types at the end of the blog.

In the early 2000s I created a list of school types and refer to them simply as Types of Schools. It helps with knowing where students will most likely find a good school fit environment for themselves.

The most common school options are described as follows:

· Type I School — A school, usually public, that serves the general population with a wide range of student socioeconomic backgrounds, including recent immigrants still learning English, residents who may be highly mobile (i.e., they change schools often), and sometimes a high proportion of poverty-level students. [1]

· Type II School — This type of school usually draws from a strongly middle-class population with few students from families in either poverty or wealth. It can be public or private.

· Type III School — This type of school is usually either a private college preparatory school or a wealthy district with a reputation for high standardized test scores, a high percentage of students who eventually go to…