Originally Posted by cloudpear
Hello all,



Does anyone have a public gifted elementary (or better, K-8) school/program that they love in one of those cities?  Are we insane to give any weight to a potential school, given that many gifted kids end up changing schools and given that I am becoming more and more disenchanted with public schools the more I read about them? 

Thanks for reading and for any input or thoughts!

IMO
These ones looks Awesome-sauce!
http://www.balboamagnet.com/
L.A.  California

Then this is in the same area.  You're lucky to consider moving once.  I doubt you'll do it more than that, right?!

Granada Hills Charter High School (often called "GHCHS" or "Granada") is an independent public school consisting of over 4,200 students in grades 9–12, located in Granada Hills, California. It currently holds the record as the top comprehensive public senior high school in Los Angeles. Granada also has a high Academic Performance Index (API) score of 876, which greatly exceeds the target API score of 800 for all schools in California.[2] On April 12, 2011, Granada was named a 2011 California Distinguished School.[citation needed]


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granada_Hills_High_School


Texas has a dedicated pg classroom with a good fit academics (first graders diagram sentences) in Carolton Texas (outskirts of Dallas). http://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Resources_id_13854.aspx  
And  there is a full-sized gifted magnet school in Garland Tx, also a suburb of Dallas.  
http://www.garlandisd.net/departments/Magnet_Programs/gt_elem.asp

And then they have this in Dallas for highschool.  http://teacherweb.com/tx/tagmagnet/main/SDHP1.stm



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