DS been asked to leave school due to low CAT score.

[omgitcantbetrue]

Just had a meeting with DS Prep school and I'm feeling so worried and anxious for DS.

He scored 92 average on the CAT test.
The teacher gently informed me this means he'll not manage to achieve above a C grade in any subject at GCSE. He's only in year 5, and I'm amazed they can make such predictions.
I was then informed that it's in his best interest to transition to a more gentle secondary school.
I don't know what I want really. Advice from parents in a similar position?
Are her life prospects totally limited? With C's only I'm assumings he'll never go to University. Which is fine. I'm worried for his prospects.
Do children who score 92 ever improve? How below average is this?
Thanks for reading

@omgitcantbetrue
Ok, Mum of dyslexic child here.

Do you have an Ed Psych report done for your ds? What did the overall intelligence score come out as? I'd be looking for "general conceptual ability" or somesuch wording.

If you don't have an ed psych you need to get one done.

You have to be very careful with CAT scores as they are not completely accurate for dyslexic children and nor is the 11+ very easy.

Just as a background my Ds's "general conceptual ability" was 124 and his CAT at about that age came in at 100. these are supposidly the "same" and indication of IQ, but the ed psych takes all problem areas out of the equation and is more like pure intelligence.

When my ed started secondary school (a high achieving grammar) they gave us an envelope filled with loads of info, which also said about the CAT scores. If hers went below a certain amount, they'd ask her to move to another school. They expected their pupils to attain a certain grade so they could maintain their position in the top schools.
But this was at the school where they matted, and not at her primary school where the CAT tests were sat. Your ds is yr 5, so has another year to go before secondary school, so he could still improve.
I never knew, before my ed started there, that being asked to move schools because you couldn't get a c or above!

We have the opposite problem, my DS has very high CAT scores so the prep school tolerate him even though he has ASD, is totally ‘eccentric’ and is basically unteachable. I don’t want to put him in a state school, as our local one is in special measures and he will be written off there and most probably bullied. Academic achievement really isn’t everything, there is so much more to your child than whether they can pass an exam, mine certainly won’t ever be able to get a ‘GCSE’ but he is ‘super bright’ on paper. The ‘system’ be it state or private doesn’t cater for everyone which is pretty depressing when you have no alternatives. DH and I are Oxbridge and RG ‘high achievers’ and ultimately it means nothing in the grand scheme of life and happiness.

You and your DS sound lovely and I'm sure he will be very employble. Do you think you should ask for a refund of this term's fees?

Crazy to suggest he 'won't' get above Cs. They don't sound well set up for dyslexic children. I hope he loves his new school.

Absolute bullshit. But I agree with the teacher, he DOES need to go to another school - where they will help him learn in a way better suited to him and his dyslexia.

I got mostly Bs and Cs in GCSEs, and a D and an E at A Level and still went to uni! Now I’m a business owner, homeowner, doing very well. Your son will be just fine but get him out of that school

And just to add that uni isn’t the be all and end all either, if he doesn’t go that route