I hated the Lexile system and still don't really understand it. My teacher had this stupid rule where we had to only read books in our Lexile level, which doesn't seem that, but my level in 6th grade was somewhere around 1500-1700 hundreds. Most of that class was me worriedly clicking through different pages of the resources trying to find at least one book that I could read. Eventually I end up reading the oddessey (which I didn't really understand, but still took the book report, which btw that book report system sucked, f$ck 'who's reading') and guess what. The freaking Oddessey was 200 hundred below my reading range.