Some students have outstanding abilities and potential for accomplishments requiring additional services to meet their educational needs. Stafford County's Focus Program for gifted students offers opportunities for acceleration and enrichment, creative and productive thinking, problem-solving, independent study, and original research. The identification process begins either through general screening procedures or through referral of the student by a parent, teacher, or a member of the school staff or community. Peer and self nominations are also accepted.
Referral forms are available in each school.
Teacher evaluation, narrative, observation. Gifted Education Stafford High and Colonial Forge High Schools are home to the Commonwealth Governor's School, now in its second year of operation. English will be added in 1999. Participants come from King George, Spotsylvania, and Stafford counties to attend classes at the Stafford or Spotsylvania sites. Other children with special needs are sometimes admitted into the program.