What is PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie's IQ Score?

PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie has an IQ Score of 114/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Competent tier. The score breaks down to 27/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 27/50 Educational Value, and 33/50 Craft & Quality.

Is PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie educational?

PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie is moderate on educational value, 27/50 on TVI's rubric. Some learning happens, but it isn't the show's primary work.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's current published formula is round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers. TVI publishes a three-dimension breakdown only when those values reproduce the displayed composite. The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie IQ Score 114/200

PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie has an IQ Score of 114/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Competent tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH and Cordelia Witty, EdS., NCSP·Updated 2026-08-17·Methodology

animationchildrenadventure

114/ 200

Competent

Engages without demanding much, watchable and reasonably crafted

Ages 3-6SEL 27/50

PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie poster, IQ Score 114/200, Competent tier on TV Intelligentsia

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

SEL Score/50

IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4) · How we score →

What these dimensions mean

Cognitive Stimulation: how much the title demands of your mind, its structural complexity, ideas, and sustained intellectual engagement.
Educational Value: what you take away, across academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.
Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.
SEL: social-emotional learning on the CASEL framework, self-awareness, regulation, social awareness, relationships, and decision-making. Does not affect the IQ Score.

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Why you should trust this score

Scored under Cordelia Witty, EdS., NCSP

Licensed school psychologist. Built the TVI Kids SEL framework and reviews the rubric application for children's content, including every TVI Kids Essential designation.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.3.1

Formula

round((C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4)

Database scale

2,605 titles, version-controlled

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The TVI Take

The pups reach a dinosaur island after a storm, and the clearest developmental value is procedural: each rescue is a stated problem, an assigned role, and a checked result, which is legible to a four-year-old. The dinosaur setting adds a thin layer of factual vocabulary.

The franchise's narrow account of who gets to solve problems is why the educational score does not climb higher.

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