All GATE students are placed in courses which offer accelerated language arts and social science content along with other GATE-identified students. Additional students may be added to accelerated classes or clusters if they meet the requirement noted below for 5th grade:

1) Smarter Balanced Scaled Score of 2687

All GATE students are placed in courses which offer accelerated language arts and social science content along with other GATE-identified students. Additional students may be added to accelerated classes or clusters if they meet 2 of 3 requirements noted below from 6th grade:

1) Smarter Balanced Scaled Score of 2711 or higher

2) 3.5 GPA in English 6 Acc or 4.0 GPA in English 6

3) iReady 6th grade spring reading score of 658 or above

All GATE students are placed in courses which offer accelerated language arts and social science content along with other GATE-identified students. Additional students may be added to accelerated classes or clusters if they meet 2 of 3 requirements noted below from 7th grade:

1) Smarter Balanced Scaled Score of 2733 or higher

2) 3.5 GPA in English 7 Acc or 4.0 GPA in English 7

3) iReady 7th grade spring reading score of 670 or above

GATE Identification is not considered when placing students into classes at the high school level. The Honors English I placement guidelines are:

1) 3.5 GPA in English 8 Acc or

2) 4.0 GPA in English 8