S.T.A.R.T
(Schools Teaching And Reaching for Talent)

S.T.A.R.T. is the gifted education program for the primary grades. Students at this level are identified as potentially gifted. This suggests they have a strong potential to achieve in the verbal or quantitative academic area and that they are presenting themselves at the moment as students who are more advanced than their peers and need enrichment. S.T.A.R.T. goals are to challenge students to develop skills in order to clarify learning by thinking critically, creatively and reflectively. In resource classes identified students are offered a variety of educational opportunities that extend and enrich the county curriculm and support the Standards of Learning (SOL's).