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Mount Lebanon reviews student services: gifted, 504, ESL, counseling and school-based mental health plans
Summary
The district reviewed a student-services program report that showed increases in gifted, Section 504 and ESL services over the past decade, described counseling-staffing ratios and expansion of school-based mental health services, and proposed communication, training and program improvements to be included in the strategic plan.
Mount Lebanon School District staff presented a student-services program review covering gifted education, Section 504 accommodations, English-language learner services, school counseling and school-based mental-health services.
The presentation said the share of students identified for gifted services rose from 4.6% in 2014 to 5.5% in 2025, an increase of 58 students over ten years. Section 504 plans now cover 8.1% of students, an increase that the administration quantified as 333 more students than a decade earlier. English-language learner services were listed at 5.6% of the student body, roughly 12 more students than ten years ago.
The district reported program highlights: universal screening for gifted at third grade, a matrix of gifted services across grade bands, both…
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