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Any opinions?

You mean, like, in the world?

My guess would be the schools that group the GT together as a group and then let them progress through the curriculum at their own pace. There are a number of school districts that are doing this. It would also depend on the curriculum.

St. Anselm's Abbey School in D.C. - very rigorous, all boys prep school. I know two hg men who attended and I believe they felt basically 'at home' there.
Not billed as a school for gt, probably about a B+ overall.
(Just decided to start naming names.) I think it's 4-12g.

Best public elementary school in California is in Cupertino. It is called William Faria. They have several years of scoring perfect 1000 on the API (Academic Performance Index). It is a school for the gifted.

Cupertino is the best school district for elementary schools in the entire state, with many fast track/gifted programs in elementary and middle schools.

High Schools in the Fremont School District (which Cupertino schools feed into) also have different tracks for advanced students and will provide accommodations where needed. The very respected and highly academically ranked De Anza Community College works with Fremont District High Schools students for dual enrollment when needed.

Best high schools are Monta Vista and Lynbrook, however Los Gatos school district's Saratoga High is a rival school that is just as competitive.

Silicon Valley on a whole has quite a variety of school districts, but these school districts (Cupertino, Fremont, Los Gatos) very much respect the students' needs, if they prove to need more of a challenge.

Here is a link that will show you last year's API scores. 1000 is perfect.

Santa Clara County List of API Scores

Wren -

What definition of best do you have in mind?

Best = Most rigorous
Best = Highest scores
Best = most "high acheiving" graduates
Best = most flexible at meeting students needs
Best = ?

I did not have a definition. Just wondered what people thought worked and, hence, would be labeled best in their minds.

Just looking at options and wondering what is best. I don't know how many noticed when someone posted, but there is a new private HG school starting up in NYC. Speyer. There was an original Speyer in the 30s, by Leta Hollingworth.

And I really wonder about their choices for curriculum. And the tuition is 28.5K.

What makes a great school for HG kids? Definitions not defined.

I just posted and realized I take that back. Outcomes are important, but what outcomes? admittances to Harvard and Princeton? Good satisying careers? Or taking the intelligence and being able to be an "outlier" so you really think out of the box?

I started to tell a story and realized that the outcome was family pressure, not school choice. Too many factors on that outlier thing I think. What makes you an outlier, school or nurture and or nature?

ren

That should have been another post, sorry.

mmmm...

sometimes following a train of thought is good.

It make sense that you leave the question open-ended enough to let each person responding decide for themselves what is best.

Meanwhile, the more background we have on what your thougths are, the better we can contribute to your decision making process.

We had a similar thread to this a while back. It seems you are stil trying to work through these questions: what will be "the best" fit for my daughter? how do I want her to benefit in the long run? etc.