If you are new to the IMAGE program as a student or parent, we welcome you to our special community of learners. Please enjoy exploring this website, and contact Mr. Anderson at kanderson@gpsbulldogs.org any questions you may have.
Thank you for all your help in getting our IMAGE year started in the most positive way, from sending students ready to be challenged and grow, to stopping by during the Oakestown open house or the New Family Orientation. Please reach out if there are ways we can better support your learner.
The IMAGE (Identified Members of Academically Gifted Education) program serves academically talented students in 3rd and 4th grade who live in the Grandville school district.
Students in the program work on projects that incorporate higher level thinking, research, and technology skills. The program is intended to serve the needs of these students by offering engaging units that challenge them while providing opportunities to both study independently in self-selected areas of interest, and interact and cooperatively learn with other students of similar abilities but who may have diverse interests.
More information about the units offered at each grade level can be found in the pages linked above.
The IMAGE program is located at Oakestown Intermediate.
Students attend IMAGE one half-day each week on Tuesdays or Thursdays. The full schedule will be available later in summer 2024
Students in 2nd and 3rd grades whose NWEA MAP Math and Reading scores average in the 90th percentile or higher (89.5 rounded up) for the same Fall, Winter, or Spring testing session can be nominated for further Cognitive Abilities Testing. Those sessions will take place at Oakestown Intermediate throughout later May.
Tuesday, May 18th - Central, East, Grandville Christian, and West
Wednesday, May 19th - Century Park Learning Center, Cummings
Thursday, May 20th - Grand View, South
Thursday, May 27th - Final make-up Cognitive Abilities Testing for all schools (including late nominations and students absent from their school's scheduled testing)
Please use the IMAGE Nomination 2026-2027 Form to nominate qualifying students. Do so after any Fall, Winter, or Spring MAP test session for which a student's average scores qualify them for CogAT.
Since 2019, E.P.I.C. (Empowering Personal Interest Challenges) has provided tudents with additional, self-selected learning and growth opportunities outside of their time in IMAGE.
Each Challenge is designed to meaningfully engage participants in the areas of Reading, Memorization, Citizenship, Physical/Dexterity, Writing/Research, and many Others.
For a full list of Challenges, as well as links to individual Challenges in each category, along with a digital scoreboard of students' accomplishments, please visit the master document for E.P.I.C.