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(HAC) provides families with an online tool where they can view helpful student information to support and guide their children through the educational process. From home or work, at any time of the day or night, parents can access the web portal to track academic achievement.
(HAC) provides families with an online tool where they can view helpful student information to support and guide their children through the educational process. From home or work, at any time of the day or night, parents can access the web portal to track academic achievement.
Features include:
Grade notifications
Class schedules
Attendance records
Features include:
Grade notifications
Class schedules
Attendance records
Advanced academic programs are a high priority in Leander ISD, with a goal of challenging each and every child to learn to their maximum ability. We are an open access program and believe ALL learners should be encourage to access the opportunities provided by advanced coursework.
Math 6/7 & Math 7/8
Students who successfully complete an accelerate math course, will automatically "roll-up" into the next year's accelerated math course, unless an opt-out form is turned into the counseling office.
All on-level 5th and 6th grade students will be considered for accelerated placement based on their STAAR scores , math class average, and teacher recommendation.
Math Pathways Information Webinar 11/19/2024
Advanced Language Arts
Language Arts includes beginning strategies for students to be successful in high school advanced courses. This course is offered to sixth, seventh and eighth grade students as an open enrollment option. Students are expected to have a higher interest and commitment to the rigor of the advanced curriculum requirements. The pace of this course develops the ability and responsibility of students to work independently, as well as promotes critical thinking skills. Outside reading, which includes a novel to be read over the summer prior to taking the course, is required.
Advanced Social Studies - 8th grade option
LISD’s Middle School Advanced Social Studies program is designed to meet the needs of students who excel in social studies. The purpose of the program is to challenge students in the area of social studies and to prepare them for success in high school advanced courses. Students are expected to have a higher commitment to the rigor of the enriched curriculum requirements. Students in Advanced Social Studies receive instruction that provides a greater depth and complexity than the grade-level curriculum, meeting these students’ need for academic challenge.
Advanced Social Studies Grade 8 is an open enrollment course with no prerequisites required. The curriculum is based on the Grade 8 Social Studies state standards, but emphasizes the higher-level and critical thinking skills of analysis, evaluation and synthesis in preparation for the Advanced Placement courses. Additional focus is placed on the inquiry, interpretation of historical documents, analysis of data from written and visual sources, and the evaluation, application and presentation of information.
Things to consider when selecting an Advanced Course
Considerations for enrollment:
-likes to challenge themselves.
-manages their course work and extra-curricular activities fairly well.
-is proactive and willing to ask for help when needed.
-thinks critically as a reader about the implications of texts, makes complex inferences, and supports thinking.
-enjoys analyzing events from different perspectives.
Off-Campus PE (OCPE) program
Off-Campus PE (OCPE) program
An approved PE substitution that permits students in grades 6-12 to earn credits that meet the District and State physical education requirements. Credit will not be retroactively approved. Students who sign up for OCPE are expected to honor their commitment for the full year. Students are required to complete the state mandated physical fitness test (Fitnessgram) while enrolled in OCPE.
OCPE program information, guidelines, and eligibility requirements.
Application Procedure for Students: due by Friday, May 30th 2025 at 4:00pm
A new OCPE application must be submitted via OCPE Google Form every year.
All off-campus PE student applications for the 2025-26 school year must be submitted via OCPE Form no later than 4 p.m., Friday, May 30, 2025. Please note that the form must be completed while the student is logged in on the Leander ISD google account.
Student and Parent/Guardian completes the Student Application
Instructor will be sent form to fill out based on the information from the Student Application
District office will determine eligibility, run instructor background checks and approve applications. Notification will be sent via email to Student, Parent and Campus Counselors via the email listed on the Student Application.
Students may obtain the OCPE Student Application on the Leander ISD website.
Counselors will confirm OCPE in schedule
Agencies must complete this form every six weeks. It is the student’s responsibility to turn it in to the Campus Counselor by the deadline listed on the form.
Agencies and Instructors Eligible to Provide OCPE: These agencies are approved to provide OCPE to LISD students. If your agency is not on this list or the agency approval is about to expire you will need to fill out the Agency Application.
All agencies who will be providing instruction for middle school students must attend a curriculum training session. MS Curriculum Training Dates
Questions about the process or pending applications can be addressed at the student’s school by the counselor or Assistant Athletic Director – candace.mckinley@leanderisd.org
Gifted & Talented (GT)
Gifted & Talented (GT)
Leander ISD’s middle school GT services include the QUEST Studies elective, acceleration (HS courses in middle school and exams for acceleration for above grade level placement), Advanced courses, extensions embedded in the core content curriculum, collaboration opportunities, and independent study. Middle school GT students must participate in the QUEST Studies elective OR at least one of the additional services listed in the Leander ISD Middle School Gifted and Talented Service Design. “QUEST” is an acronym for Quality Utilization and Enrichment of Student Talents.
Advanced Courses
All LISD learners have access to advanced courses in middle school, including language arts, math, fine arts, and STEM classes. GT learners are encouraged to explore their unique strengths as well as stretch themselves academically by participating in the array of learning options available at each middle school.
QUEST-G/T: Screening, Assessment, Identification Process
(Winter & Spring screening - please see the link above to our district website for more information)
An opportunity for students who speak, read, and write a language other than English. Students who score 3 credits of Spanish will be eligible to take AP Spanish IV in 8th grade, as an academic elective worth both high school and college credit. Students who score 1 or more language credits have this transferred with them on their high school transcript.
Please CLICK HERE for more information.
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