Mission

Mission: 

To appreciate each student’s unique potential and

to advocate for excellence in every child. 

In the Grant County School District you will find:

√ Warm, friendly staff who care about your child’s success

√ Innovative, well-trained instructional team, with 75% of our teachers possessing a master’s degree or higher.

√ Safe, attractive, and well-maintained facilities

√ Use of proven instructional strategies

√ A wide variety of specialized programs to support our belief that all children can and will learn.

In the Grant County School District, students will: 

Be self-aware

Understanding of others

Competent

Communicative

Ethical

Engaged 

Determined

     We strive to help our gifted students reach their highest potential by providing them with opportunities specific to their individual needs. As each child is unique in areas of strength, interests, and needs so are the pathways to their success. 

     This  philosophy and the district’s mission statement coincide with 704 KR 3:285. This regulation, relating to several Kentucky statutes,  requires each district to adopt policies and procedures that identify strengths, gifted behaviors, and talents of kindergarten through 12th  grade students. Gifted and talented students possess demonstrated potential ability in one or more of the following areas: General Intellectual Ability, Specific Academic  Aptitude (Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies), Creative or Divergent thinking, Psychosocial or Leadership skills,  and Visual or Performing Arts. 

          Parents of gifted and talented children are often looking for information and a sense of direction on how to become effective advocates for their children and excellence in education as a whole. The information on this website reflects the current program for our district. It is a compilation of state and local guidelines, identification procedures, examples of delivery options for gifted education services, and national and appropriate forms for each area of giftedness. 

Gifted/Talented Definitions: As defined in: National Excellence: A Case for Developing America’s Talent (1994).  Report to the Congress of the United States by the Commissioner of Education.. Washington,DC: U.S. 

Children and youth with outstanding talent perform or show the potential for performing at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared with others of their age, experience, or environment. 

These children and youth exhibit high performance capability in intellectual, creative, and/or artistic areas, possess an unusual leadership capacity, or excel in specific academic fields. They require services or activities not ordinarily provided by the schools. 

Outstanding talents are present in children and youth from all cultural groups, across all economic strata, and in all areas of human endeavor (p. 26).