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Board hears gifted‑education update; parent urges more advanced and AP offerings
Summary
Gifted services staff described screening, identification and enrichment work while a parent urged the board to preserve and expand advanced courses and AP offerings, saying some advanced students feel underchallenged in middle school.
The Gloucester County School Board heard a divisional update on gifted education Thursday and received a public comment urging more advanced coursework and continued Advanced Placement opportunities for high-achieving students.
Gifted specialist Gay Murphy told the board the division uses universal screeners (CogAT for a specified grade and STAR district assessments) plus teacher and parent referral and portfolio review to identify students for gifted services. Murphy said the division’s aim is to identify roughly the top 10 percent of students; currently 382 students across the division are identified as gifted. Identification rates…
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