Jordan School District reports ALPS enrollment, $350,000 USBE grant and local barriers to broader access

Jordan School District presented an update to the Board of Education on May 27 about its Advanced Learning Placement for Students (ALPS) program, the district’s largest gifted-and-talented delivery model.

The district said a Utah State Board of Education grant called the Enhancement for Accelerated Students provides roughly $350,000 a year to support ALPS testing, proctoring, substitute stipends for professional development and supplemental classroom resources. The presentations were led by Carolyn Goff and Rebecca Smith, who described ALPS operations, professional development and enrichment activities funded by that grant.

The update said ALPS is a long-standing district program that identifies students through annual testing and serves roughly 900–1,000 students; this year’s enrollment is about 950. Elementary entry is…