APS - Are all students identified as gifted?

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Anonymous wrote:In APS does gifted really mean average - there doesn't seem to be a specific hurdle. All of the parents we know have children gifted in something - almost like a participation trophy.

30% at some schools like Cardinal. There's magic in that water. Weirdly, that's not the gifted rate at ATS which is in the old McK space. So, must be something else...

The ATS rate is higher than Cardinal...what are you saying here?

Where do find gifted rates at schools? I've never seen that.

Someone kindly posted a link on the first page of this thread

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Anonymous wrote:Escuela Key is 56% Hispanic. Yet less than 8% of Hispanic students at Escuela Key are identified as gifted, while 33% of white students are identified as gifted. That doesn't seem right, especially at a school that's taught half in Spanish with Spanish speaking teachers so language shouldn't be a barrier.

Language might not be a barrier in this setting, but a lot of these kids may be from more recent immigrant families who may have a low education and don’t speak good Spanish at home and don’t have a great education/vocabulary. There could be other reasons as well.
Parents have to fill out paperwork, and give permission at several stages of the process. Even more so, if it’s not an “automatic identification” via testing scores. I’m sure the school offers help and translation, they always do, but follow through may be lacking on the parents part.