Gifted students should be challenged to develop their abilities for both personal fulfillment and the benefit of society. History of our program We have had a program in our district for 14 years. Currently we run two groups of Highly Capable Students. Both groups work on a pull-out system. Students are taken out of the regular education classroom and then they meet together with the other highly capable students in their respective school.
Students then work individually, in a small group, or as a whole, completing specialized units.
Creativity, critical thinking, and future applications are an integral part of our curriculum. It includes such psychological concepts as thinking, abstract reasoning, problem solving, verbal comprehension and numerical facility. Evidence of this ability shall be exhibited by student scores in the top ten percent in a cognitive ability test. Specific academic achievement in one or more major content areas . Evidence of this will be that the student scores in the top five percent in one or more specific academic areas.