Parents must complete a separate form for each child in their family that is requesting transportation. Deadline is end of business day (5:00 pm) on June 15, 2020 for guaranteed transportation for the first day of school. If you miss the deadline, transportation cannot be guaranteed for the first two weeks of school.

Link to form - https://forms.gle/6Xsvv4K2sg1kFfkM6

All students will be grouped into cohorts - groups of approximately 25 students will move together for the entire school day.

Some of our students will need to be in regular courses based on their current academic levels.  These classes are taught by highly qualified teachers, and the work has appropriate pacing and rigor, and engaging lessons.  The standards taught for all classes within a grade level are the same, regardless of being regular, advanced, or GATE.  In addition, about 25% of our students need intervention services.  These services are provided through the school day by each classroom teacher.

 

Many students will need our advanced courses (all those high achieving students that do not make it into GATE).  Courses in advanced are very rigorous and enriched, and with very highly qualified teachers.  In many cases, our GATE teachers also instruct our advanced courses.  This allows our advanced students the opportunity to receive much of the same content, strategies, projects, and engagement, as the students in GATE, often times with a teacher who has the gifted endorsement.

 

All students who have the official "gifted" label are placed into GATE.  In a normal year, the remaining available seats in GATE go to the highest performing students in the grade level based on their FSA scores for ELA and Math.  As those scores aren't available, we will be looking at STAR data to help us create our classes.  In some cases, we will look back to prior year's FSA scores, if the STAR data is not conclusive.  For our incoming 6th grade students, we will be receiving the STAR data for both reading and math from OES and OEN.  We will use the STAR data, but we will also be considering teacher recommendations when it comes to placement in GATE.  We will be hearing from the teachers of the accelerated classes at both of our elementary schools.  They will inform us as to whether or not they believe their current students should continue in our GATE program.  In addition, we will absolutely consider students who are in the process of being tested for gifted services.  We will consider all of the collected information as we begin to create the classes over the summer. 

 

 

 

We are still in the early planning stages, but we really want to expand our Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM) courses.  We are excited to give more students the opportunities to participate in STEAM courses - things like Robotic, Underwater Robotics, Coding, and Green Technology (aeroponics), just to name a few.  While the courses have not been completely determined, these are just some of the options we are considering for students.

With the use of cohorts this year, all elective classes were chosen for students.  We were not able to honor the selections students made before the end of the last school year.