I agree about being evaluated for learning difficulty. Unless her attendance is poor, she should be able to learn enough while in school to at least squeak by. BTW, OP, have you guys pulled her attendance records? How many days she arrives late, leaves early, etc. How many ACTUAL absences, even if they are excused by a doctor's note? The school can't punish parents or even really make a big deal about excused absences, but the child still isn't learning. 

Came back to add that in the school system where i work, a lot of the kids who are either failing or have IEPs but no obvious disability have very poor attendance. Excused absences aren't counted when figuring out who gets referred to the child welfare and attendance dept but they do matter. 

My SS was just about always the smartest student in the class.  In 8th grade we changed districts when we moved half the continent away from the district he had been in since K.  The new district was a Blue Ribbon district as was his prior district. The different is that Middle School and HS were both on block scheduling.  Eac semester the kids had an entirely different schedule.  The new district also had a policy that to be retained/retreaded in the same grade the kid had to fail the same two classes two 6k grading periods in a row. So, for the first 6wks SS was a straight A student. For the second 6wks, straight Fs.  It drove his teachers insane.  He was incredibly polite, always.  But the second 6wks he basically read novels all day. He never turned in his homework though we checked that it was complete ever evening. He would participate in class if it interested him. If not he had a novel in his lap the whole school day.  This was after the days when a teacher kept a paddle hanging from the corner of theri desk and the days of Saturday detention, etc...  We ended up in a PT conference with his 8th grade teaching team.  They were very bowed up on us that something traumatic had to have happened, he was on drugs, etc... Nope. Ball-less teachers.  I told them to take his desk, stand him at the front of the room all day, and ask him every difficult question there was in that day's lessons.  Take his novel, tear it in half, and throw it in the trash in front of the whole class. Public humiliation was something that SS would avoid at any cost. Public focus of any kind, even being recognized for doing a good job, was something he hated and would avoid.  4 of the 5 teachers were mortified.  They did not want to destroy his love for reading. What if it was a library book?  It was obvious they knew nothing about out kid.  He would read toilet paper if there was nothing else to read.  We told them that HE would replace the destroyed trashed book if it was a library book.  Only his science teacher got it.  The only man on the teaching team BTW.  SS stood for the rest of the semester in his class.  That was the only class SS passed the second six weeks.

Our kid would blow the doors off of any standardized test regardless of weather they were in the first 6wk grading period where he was delivering straight As. Or the second 6wk grading period where he was delivering straight Fs.

The only time in HS where this formula was disrupted was when he was in Military boarding school when he was under a hairy eyeball 24/7 and failure to perform delivered an existance of sheer hell.  In that environment, he was an honor student, a decorated Cadet leader, and a top athlete.

It drove us insane. He was a great kid. Polite, engaging, fun to be around. Except for being smarter than anyone else and always running for the middle of the crowd where he just blended rather than stood out.

Military school helped.  So has the USAF for the last 14yrs.  Though he will still upon occassion shove his head up his own ass.  Some kids and even adults need a boot up the ass to keep their head out of their own ass.