I would hope that if a child truly had that type of potential, the coaches would say something. That's what happened to us. When my DD was 6, the coaches approached me and told me to take her somewhere else because they believed that she had elite potential. They were a small low hour gym with only 2 coaches, one for compulsory and the other optionals, and no expertise in high level gymnastics. She stayed until we were both certain that she was willing to make the sacrifices necessary for the elite program. The fact that she stayed encouraged her coaches to become better coaches (and yes, they did that willingly). They kept her at the regular hours but worked with her on harder skills. She did relatively few privates. One year, her coach had her participate in TOPS testing even though there was no TOPS program and we had to figure it out as we went. She didn't transfer to a gym that had a pre-elite program until after L8. Unfortunately, due to continuing injuries, she was only able to get her elite compulsory scores and eventually (thankfully!) decided to leave the sport. I will say that if the coaches hadn't been willing to work with her, then I would have moved her but at that age, there was no real reason.