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Bastrop ISD Reports Growth in Advanced Academics, Expanded GT Identification and Dual‑Credit Options
Summary
District leaders said efforts to expand early GT identification, OnRamps dual‑credit courses and AP participation are producing gains: district‑level screening and MAP use increased referrals, OnRamps expanded college-credit opportunities, and 294 eighth-graders took the Avant STAMP with 54% meeting multi‑year language credit requirements.
District academic leaders told the board that Bastrop ISD’s investments in gifted-and-talented screening, OnRamps dual-credit offerings and AP expansion are producing measurable gains.
Chief Academic Officer Jennifer Eberly and Advanced Academics coordinator Cheryl Pinkston described a two‑year effort to broaden GT identification beginning in kindergarten, including use of a MAP screener at…
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