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[quote=Anonymous]OP is coming from Baltimore County asking for a comparison with DCPS schools -- I googled their description of ES G&T and it sounds mostly like strong in class differentiation based on frequent benchmark tests by teachers, with some tweaks coming up due to the switch to common core. http://www.bcps.org/offices/gt/  That's why I'd just call it good teaching, and skip the G&T label. It is not what G&T was when I was a kid (which was lame weekly pull outs for strange enrichment opportunities based on IQ, nor the bus all the high IQ kids to one school model -- also not my cup of tea, but certainly a way to ensure that a school is highly ranked if you have a large enough population to pull from). So while DCPS has no "G&T program" and the label is never used, if what OP is looking for is what that brochure describes, that is what autonomous DCPS schools do (the JKLMs mentioned above). You also have good options in MD in VA if you want to move there instead, but that was not the question.

Also OP, I'm sure you are smart enough not to be fooled by  the folks who tout only the national statistics about DC schools in general. I assume you were not planning to move to Ward 8. When the NAEP statistics are broken down, you will see the sad truth about the urban achievement gap -  white students in DCPS (the vast majority of whom are in JKLM, and Deal and Wilson) are first in the country, ahead of the MD and VA students -- by a lot. They are being taught in DCPS. Such statistics are also awkward because they are comparing a city to states, but people seem to like to use them to rank DC at the bottom, so lets also admit that in this category DC is the top (FWIW).

I really don't think you will learn what you need to know on this forum. You need to see the schools and compare what the kids are doing. That's what it took for me. 10:00 gives a serious answer, but all it really does is rehash generalized "reputation" without any of the substance people demand every time a parent of a gifted kid in DCPS says their child is being challenged at their own level of intelligence by very good teachers. You will do fine if you choose by reputation and move to MD and VA, but since this is the DCPS forum and you are looking in DC, some of us are trying to explain that our G&T kids needs are also being met in DCPS without programs or schools labeled as such.

Also I know of no JKLM that accelerates students without depth of understanding. I know of no parent in my school who would stand for that. 
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