The terms below are used to describe where a student stands within the identification process.
Talent Pool (TP): This designation means your school’s GT teacher has collected some evidence toward gifted identification, but your child does not yet meet the state criteria for formal gifted identification. Talent Pool students do not have Advanced Learning Plans (ALPs) since they are not formally identified as gifted at this time, and they are not eligible for magnet school placement.
Magnet Eligible (ME): Students with a 95th percentile or above on a nationally normed cognitive test, but have not been formally identified as HGT yet. ME students do not receive an Advanced Learning Plan (ALP).
Gifted (GT): Identified Gifted students who do not have a qualifying cognitive test score but do have a qualifying body of evidence indicating giftedness.
Highly Gifted (HGT): Identified Gifted students with a 95th percentile or above on a nationally normed cognitive test and a qualifying body of evidence indicating giftedness.
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