My school district is the same...but my daughter was showing signs in the beginning of pre-k that she was above what was being taught and the teacher suggested to us that we move her up to Kindergarten instead, so we did (at 4 years old). So fast forward to May of her kindergarten year and we had to decide whether to push for her to go to first or have her repeat Kindergarten again. The teacher of kindi went to bat for us and we had a meeting with the superintendent, guidance counselor, 1st grade principal, etc. They took my daughter into a private room away from us and tested her on numerous things...it was a long process! When they came out, they all said "she needs to go to first grade...she could academically be in second grade, but we don't recommend that for social reasons". So fast forward to freshman year and she is in the gifted program...she is in all honors and AP classes and is doing very well, Distinguished Honor Roll so far and will most likely graduate early.....but, socially she is far behind what her classmates are. She has no desire for boys, makeup, nice clothes, etc. She doesn't like to go out and hang out socially, she would rather be at home reading, drawing or listening to music. Being smart has it's perks, but it is also very hard to be smarter than most of your peers. She doesn't really relate to her classmates and prefers to be around adults. And I can honestly say that she is way smarter than me and it's quite exhausting.