While a little off point, I do love the granularity of understanding that so many contributors offer on this site. Long tails on the downside…yes for many reasons, including, but not limited to athletes. Yes, best to assume that the scores are superscored, per BC protocol, though I do not know whether NCES or CDS or others provide any guidance/restrictions on this. Anyway, the bottom line on this for the OP is that a 32 is well within “the range” but not likely to move the dial in a positive way.