We started Laurel Springs Academy for the Gifted and Talented in September and have been very happy with it. My kids are gifted 7th and 8th graders but not PG across the board, just so you know -- tested into Johns Hopkins CTY High Honors, so no slouches here, but more like 98/99 percentile not 99.9 percentile.
Be sure to distinguish between "regular" Laurel Springs, which is cheaper, and Laurel Springs Academy, which is a bit more expensive but still a bargain compared to private school. The Academy really is dedicated to GT learning, and they are extremely flexible. Academy kids are a separate group; they have their own gatherings and online discussions, and they are entitled to 100% customization of courses.
It's also important, though, to realize that the school will do some of the customization, but parents have to be right in there. We have liked and respected all the teachers, but like all human beings, they vary. We still do a lot of hands-on teaching ourselves, but it is great to have the curriculum set for us.
It's also important to realize that Laurel Springs Academy for GT kids basically follows two strategies: acceleration (your child takes whatever classes they're ready for) and independent study (you can pull out the curricular "guts" of a course and turn it into a rigorous independent study if you like; you do have to show the school that your proposed program is appropriate). These are GREAT strategies for my DD. She is taking 9th grade Honors English, 9th grade Algebra, and high-school French as a 7th grader. Some of these are very much standard courses -- we have chosen not to customize much as we get our feet wet this first year -- using Prentice-Hall type coursebooks. But the content is rigorous, and the English course, to LS's credit, is entirely good original literature, not a textbook (Romeo and Juliet, the Odyssey, and Wuthering Heights).
The kids do a TON of writing and very little standardized-test-type multiple choice or Cloze testing (in the Honors classes, so far, ZERO). They also write a bunch of longer essays (roughly 4-6 per semester @ 1,500 words each) and an "Academy Project," which is a year-long research project, driven by the child.
