AcademyACL is a K-8 public charter school in the Pikes Peak region. They provide an academic home for advanced & creative learning, and a place for unusually advanced, gifted skills to flourish. Their gifted education specialty uses a higher degree of difficulty and more complex curriculum designed for academically gifted learners.
Academy Hill School provides an intellectual, principled, creative, and enriching foundation for gifted and high-potential students to become the next visionaries, innovators, and leaders.
Accelerated Academics, Inc. provides a variety of online services for students with high intellectual and/or creative abilities and talents. Services include three enrollment options; development of individualized learning plan (ILP); Honors Math courses; independent project based learning and enrichment options; and consulting, guidance and parental support.
ACCESS Academy is an alternative, accelerated program for highly gifted students in 1st through 8th grade, located in Portland, Oregon. A vibrant, supportive community of 350 gifted learners, ACCESS Academy provides curriculum acceleration and enrichment options, including a flexible program design to meet students’ needs based on ability level rather than chronological age or grade.
ACE Academy is a private, independent school for gifted students in Austin, Texas. ACE offers classes for students from Kindergarten through middle school in flexible groupings and combines strong, integrated academic curriculum with a global outlook. They are dedicated to bringing gifted students together with one another and with teachers who are passionate about giftedness and creativity.
Achieve Virtual Academy offers online learning for gifted and talented students, providing opportunities to advance that may not be available elsewhere. This online high school offers gifted and talented students numerous challenging courses and higher-level learning opportunities across a variety of academic subjects.
Alverno Heights Academy is an independent, Catholic, TK-12 school for girls and boys in TK-8 and a college preparatory school for young women in grades 9-12. The academy is dedicated to preparing students to function in a society as informed, knowledgeable persons, who have the requisite skills to make and implement mature decisions about complex problems.
Located in Fort Worth, Texas, Anderson Private School for the Gifted, Talented and Creative LLC was established to enhance the diverse gifts, talents, and creativity of highly able children. Anderson Private School is fully accredited by AdvanceED. Anderson School provides an educational setting where precocious children have an opportunity to participate with their intellectual peers in challenging creative, academic, aesthetic, and social endeavors. Anderson School enrolls only gifted, talented, and creative children and is co-educational, nonsectarian and open to qualified children of all faiths and ethnicity.
ASMSA is one of only sixteen public, residential high schools nationwide which specializes in the education of gifted and talented students who have an interest and aptitude for mathematics and science. Created in 1991 by an act of the Arkansas Legislature, ASMSA is one of the nation’s top secondary schools for gifted students. Application is open to any sophomore student who resides in the state of Arkansas. ASMSA offers an innovative and challenging curriculum with courses such as Robotics, Quantum Mechanics, Immunology, Graphic Design, Documentary Films, and Artificial Intelligence. All curriculum is designed to promote creative thinking and problem solving.
Arroyo Pacific Academy is a four-year private, independent, coeducational, college preparatory high school located in Arcadia, California. It is a learning institution where academic attainment has the highest priority within a learning environment that is supportive and encouraging. Gifted middle school students enrolled at a local school, online school, or who are home-schooled, may apply to take advantage of the Academy’s individual courses, including AP courses. Generally this opportunity is granted only to students whose parents have met with a counselor familiar with gifted student needs, and who have support from their parents and current school. The Academy recognizes the needs of those advanced students who are ready for a greater challenge than the standard grade level content may offer.
Assets School serves gifted and capable students specializing in those with dyslexia and other language-based learning differences. They provide a strength-based program, complemented by outreach and training, that empowers students to become effective learners and confident self-advocates.
Located in Northridge, California, Balboa Gifted/High Ability Magnet engages students from all social, cultural, economic and linguistic backgrounds in a comprehensive and challenging educational program that fosters academic excellence and responsible citizenship through the timeless basics of teaching: strong discipline, character education, high expectations of students, and the development of effective work habits.
The mission of Bayside Academy is to engage all students through integrated learning experiences that encourage critical thinking and a growth mindset. Bayside Academy is a community built on collaboration, communication, and positive relationships, and encourage all students to be lifelong learners.
Bellevue Discovery supports highly capable children, their families and the community by nurturing children’s limitless potential and creativity, supporting families in the development of each child’s unique gifts, and fostering understanding in the community of the educational, social and emotional needs of highly capable young children.
BK Academy (Bellevue, King County) serves gifted preschool and elementary students in Bellevue, Eastside of Seattle. BK Academy facilitates empathy and perseverance for change makers. BK Academy is mainly focused on students’ social/emotional/character development.
Bridges Academy is dedicated to understanding and educating gifted and highly gifted students with learning differences (twice-exceptional or 2e students) and fostering a successful academic and social experience for students and for the broader community through work of two divisions: Bridges Academy and The Center for Twice-Exceptional Research and Professional Development (The 2e Center). Located in Studio City, CA, the Academy serves students 4th through 7th grade (The Phoenix Program) and 7th through 12th grade (The Da Vinci Program).
Brightmont Academy offers full-time private school, individual courses, and tutoring. At the center of Brightmont’s personalized learning approach is one-to-one instruction: one highly qualified teacher working with one student throughout every learning session. To foster continual progress, each teaching moment is optimized to accommodate a student’s needs. Brightmont Academy’s approach has been successful for a variety of students, including homeschool, gifted, and 2e students.
Since 1938, The Bronx High School of Science has been one of New York City’s most selective public high schools. BHSS is one of 9 specialized high schools located in New York and operated by the New York City Department of Education. Their mission is to provide educational and social opportunities that are unique for gifted and talented students to best prepare them for meaningful and useful roles in science and society. Bronx Science offers a well-rounded curriculum in English, Biology, Physical Science, Mathematics, Social Studies, Foreign Language, The Arts, Technology, Health and Physical Education as well as Advanced Placement, College Level, Honor Courses and an extensive selection of Electives.
Located in Denver, Colorado, the Challenge School is a magnet charter school in Cherry Creek School District that exists to inspire, empower and challenge students who are academically advanced or gifted. Through a rigorous academic program, Challenge encourages students to become compassionate and critical thinkers able to communicate their ideas. Challenge classes are primarily grouped by learning or developmental needs rather than by age to best meet the needs of each individual child. Students also work in multi-age groups in Connections, Mini-courses, and Immersion classes. Challenge School serves students Kindergarten through eighth grade.
Housed at the Sterling School in Greenville, South Carolina, the Charles Townes Center is a select program for highly gifted students grades 3-8. The purpose of the Charles Townes Center (CTC) is to provide gifted and talented students with a highly challenging, full-time instructional program that enriches, accelerates, and extends the program of studies in Greenville County Schools. The curriculum in each content area exceeds South Carolina Standards. Differentiation in the depth, breadth, and pace of instruction is designed to challenge the abilities of advanced learners, with strong emphasis on the development of higher order thinking skills.
Classical Junior Academy provides a unique, safe and nurturing school fostering academic achievement and serving the diverse population of gifted and talented students.
Cyprus Classical Academy is designed for advanced and gifted children who have the ability to learn beyond the typical school curriculum. Located in Burnsville, Minnesota, Cyprus offers customized and individualized classes and pacing for each student, and each subject is assessed individually. Currently they enroll students in Pre-K through Eighth grade.
Da Vinci Center began in 2009 in Catherine Cook’s home in Alameda as various members of the gifted community came together to design and create an environment that would truly serve gifted children. Da Vinci Center provides opportunities far beyond the norm of traditional schools. They engage in high level scientific experiments, monthly field trips for exploration, discovery and connection to nature, design and build intricate projects, as well as support low income families with gifted children who need a highly specialized environment.
The Davidson Academy offers two educational options for profoundly gifted students – an online high school option (both full-time and single-course enrollments available) and a free public day school for middle and high school students. Since 2006, Davidson has offered a unique educational environment for gifted and 2e learners, grouping students not by age but by ability. To attend, students must score in the 99.9th percentile on accepted intelligence and/or achievement tests, as well as demonstrate motivation, social and emotional maturity, and an overall readiness for a fast-paced educational environment.
E.A. Young Academy is an accredited K-12, not-for-profit private academy dedicated to gifted, talented and high ability scholars in North Richland Hills, Texas. They are passionate about serving the needs of gifted students by providing a creative, challenging and unique learning environment. They believe the essential purpose of education is to empower learners to fully develop their talents and abilities in order to become innovative, problem solving, compassionate stewards of our global community.
