The strange thing is that NYC is so advanced in pushing gifted programs. I am compiling a list of the NYC schools that have some gifted. This varies from gifted magnet schools to just gifted classes within an elementary, most of which are not accelerated. There are 200 elementary and middle schools in the 5 boros that have a program.
There are 4 elementary schools in NYC that are for kids that score above 99th percentile and they are adding 1 in Queens and 1 in Brooklyn in next year and then Bronx and Staten Island the year after. Hence, they will be able to accomodate most of the identified gifted kids. You get out of NYC and there isn't much. Nassau county has a school for the gifted, but they are far and few in the state, yet NYC leads in public gifted schooling, maybe in the nation.
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