Concord Special Education Parent Advisory Committee

Full Scale IQ Scores

Other sources generally cite IQ scores and their labels:

below 20	Profoundly Intellectual Impairment - Profoundly Mentally Retareded (MR)
20-34	Severe Intellectual Impairment - Severe Mentally Retarded (MR)*
35-49	Moderate Intellectual Impairment - Moderate Mentally Retarded (MR)*
50-70	Mild Intellectual Impairment - Mild Mental Retarded (MR)
71-84	Broaderline Intellectual Functioning
85-99	Lower average - normal
90-110	Average - normal
100-115	High average - normal
115-129	Bright
130-144	Gifted
145-159	Highly gifted
160 above	Profoundly gifted

Full Scale IQs between 90 and 110 are considered within the "average range" (Mean IQ score is 100).

* = source "Children with Mental Retardation" A Parents' Guide", (1993, Pub.Woodbine House Inc., p6).

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