| Leave it up to him about whether or not he should tell his friends.
I had high scoring, but lazy sons whose grades were far below their potential. I did tell their teachers so the teachers would realize that my sons were lazy, not dim witted (something that one teacher apparently thought of one son who was carrying a D in AP English, but scores in the 99th percentile).
Sometimes teachers having high expectations of students can encourage the students to live up to their potential (Didn't work for my sons, though one --who loved school, but disliked studying -- seemed to feel bad about disappointing teachers.).
Whether or not they knew his scores, both of my sons' peers knew sons were very bright (peers can pick up on that very easily). Sons' high scores didn't seem to cause any problems with peers, most of whom were out performing sons anyway in the area that counts: gpa and class rank.
One son didn't realize how much his peers had outshined him until graduation, when he noticed that he was the only one of his friends with no honor cord or other recognition due to academic honors related to gpa. |