KINDERGARTEN G&T
ADMISSIONSFAQFall 2024

What is the Eligibility Process?
For current pre-K students at DOE/district schools, Pre-K Centers, NYC
Early Education Centers (NYCEECs), or charter schools:
Anyone who adds a G&T program to their kindergarten application will beevaluated by their current pre-K teachers.

What do Pre-K teachers look for?
As teachers consider a student's readiness for accelerated learning, they are asked toconsider how learning behaviors might be demonstrated and/or be presented based oneach child’s unique developmental trajectory by thinking about:the entire year’s learning experience with each individual child;each individual child holistically;each child from a strengths-based perspective;
observed behaviors that may occur more than once (consider a wide range of
observations and not a minimum/maximum number);
the various and many ways children express what they know and are able to do;
The end-of-year expectations as outlined in The New York State Prekindergarten
Learning standards

Teacher/Program Nomination Form contains three sections. Teachers are asked to use
authentic assessment data collected throughout the 2022-23 school year, to check thebehaviors a child demonstrates. Children do not need to display behaviors in each category todemonstrate readiness for accelerated learning.

How are Kindergarten G&T offers made?
After all applications are submitted and eligibility is determined, all eligible
applicants are considered for offers.
Offers are determined based on families' application choices, seat availability, andadmissions priorities. All G&T programs give an admissions priority to siblings ofcurrent students.
Due to limited seats, not all eligible applicants will be made offers.
Eligible applicants may be placed on programs waitlists if seats are not available.
All kindergarten applicants who apply by the deadline will receive an offer letter inspring 2024. This offer may be to a Gifted and Talented program or anotherkindergarten program.

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/enrollment/enroll-grade-by-grade/gifted-talented

1ST-4TH GRADE G&TADMISSIONSFAQFall 2024

How do I apply?
Eligible families with children entering grades 1, 2, 3 or 4 grade
can apply to G&T programs in fall 2023.
The application will be available in the Spring

Who can participate?
For current Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders in DOE public schools
Students are considered eligible if they have course grades of a 3 or 4, or the equivalent,on their report card for Math, Reading and Writing. Students may not have ever had a 1
in any marking period in any of these courses. Available grades for the current school
year as of March were used to determine eligibility.
Eligible students received a letter in the mail inviting them to apply.
Current students in district G&T programs can only apply to Citywide G&T programs,
not other district programs.
For current Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders in charter, private or parochialschools
For your child's application to be considered, be sure to do the following:
Submit a G&T application online with MySchools or through a Family Welcome Center.
AND
Submit your child's grades to a Family Welcome Center.
Homeschool grades cannot be used to determine eligibility for G&T programs.
The DOE will determine which charter private and parochial school applicants qualify as
eligible based on converting your child's grades to a 4-point scale.

How are Grade 1-4 G&T Offers Made?
Offers for eligible applicants will be determined based on families' application
choices, programs' seat availability, and admissions priorities. All G&T programs givepriority to siblings of current students..
All applicants will receive a results letter. This letter may include a G&T offer and any
information about waitlist.

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/enrollment/enroll-grade-by-grade/gifted-talented

6TH GRADE G&TADMISSIONSFAQFall 2024

Who can apply?
Apply to middle school when your child is in their last year of elementary school. Your childmust be both of the following to apply:
A NYC resident AND
A current fifth grade student, or a current sixth grade student if their elementary schoolends in sixth grade
Citywide programs are open to all NYC students.

How do students get offers?
Students get offers to programs based on four key factors:
1. Your application choices. The number of program choices you add to your child’s
application AND the order in which you place them matter! Add 12 choices to your child’s
application in your true order of preference.
2. Each program's available seats. The number of available seats varies from program toprogram.
3. Your priority group for each program. Some programs give an admissions priority tospecific groups of applicants before others, such as to students who live in a specific zone
or district. If there are more applicants to one of these programs than seats available,applicants are admitted in priority-group order: all students in a program’s priority group 1
will be considered first. Then if seats are still available, students in that program’s priority
group 2 will be considered next, and so on. Learn which priority group your child is in foreach program. They will be in different priority groups for different programs.
4. The Program's Admissions Method.
a. For screened programs, students are ranked based on a composite of their course
grades on a 1-4 scale from fourth grade. Offers are made to ranked students by priority
group and in ranking number order. If your child's school does not use a 1-4 grading
scale, for purposes of admissions to middle school only, the DOE converts grades to a 14 scale .

How do I get my Middle School offer
letter?
In the spring, students get their middle school offers. All applicants get a middle school offer; moststudents get an offer to attend one of the programs ranked on their middle school application, but it is
not guaranteed. Your child's offer letter also includes a list of programs where they’ve been waitlisted.
Your child is automatically on the waitlist for any program that you listed higher on their application
than the program where they received an offer. For example, if your child received an offer to your thirdchoice program, they are automatically waitlisted at your first-choice and second-choice programs.
After initial offers are made and while waitlists are open, you can add your child to additional waitlists.
You can also check your child's place on the waitlist for any school, in real time.
Waitlist offers are made based on seat availability, as well as the same admissions priorities andadmissions methods described on the DOE page and detailed in MySchools.
Schools will be in touch directly if a seat opens up and they can make your child a waitlist offer.

https://www.schools.nyc.gov/enrollment/enroll-grade-by-grade/gifted-talented