Gifted Services by Program/Grade

CMSD offers pull-out programs in 25 of our schools to identified students in grade 2-8. This program allows a Gifted Intervention Specialist to pull identified gifted students from their regular classroom and administer gifted services. We also offer 7th and 8th graders to take Physical Science, Algebra 1 and Spanish 1 in various schools.

OTHER ADVANCED SERVICES OFFERED BY CMSD

Advanced Placement (AP) coursework is offered in ALL area high schools; AP courses vary per school; teachers are AP College Board accredited.

Early College Programs including Bard Early College, Lincoln West, John Marshall,  and Cleveland Early College at John Hay.

All district students can be eligible for single-subject or whole-grade acceleration (not just gifted identified students). Whole-grade Acceleration is determined by use of the IOWA Acceleration Scales assessment process. Contact the gifted coordinator for more information.

Early Entrance to Kindergarten testing is done through the Office of Gifted Education and the Office of Psychological Services. Referrals are made to the Gifted Coordinator of the Office of Gifted Education using the Early Entrance to Kindergarten application posted on the CMSD website.  Testing is generally done at a Summer Testing Clinic for Early Entrance to Kindergarten.  All appointments must be scheduled through the Gifted Coordinator. Click here for instructions for Early Entrance to Kindergarten if your child turns 5 years old after September 30th.

Students identified as ‘Twice Exceptional’ have an IEP and a WEP and are included in the self-contained gifted room, gifted cluster, or gifted pull-out resource room.