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Yakima shifts highly capable screening, narrows testing pool and increases qualified students
Summary
The district changed screening for the Highly Capable program to focus testing on second and sixth grades, reducing the number of students tested from ~1,300 to 442 while raising qualifiers to 62; staff said the new process improved demographic representation and saved about $20,000 in timesheet costs.
Jamie Lee presented changes to the Yakima School District’s Highly Capable identification process on May 20, telling the board the district reduced wholesale testing and used data-driven screening to increase both efficiency and demographic representation.
Lede: The district targeted second and sixth grades for screening this year and reduced the number of students tested from historical whole-grade-level tests (about 1,300) to 442 students; 62 students qualified for the program in 2025, up from a historical average of 40–50 qualifiers.
Nut graf: The screening change aimed to identify students who may have…
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