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2024 Back-to-School Care Fair

Join VB Schools and over 100 youth-serving organizations, agencies and school division departments for an informational and fun-filled day that gives families the opportunity to connect with valuable resources which promote youth development and well-being.

Gifted Programs

Welcome! Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) offers gifted education services at all levels through a combination of school-based options and division wide programs. Through a continuum of services, gifted students engage in rigorous learning opportunities with differentiated instruction that is responsive to the academic, social and emotional needs of the student.

VBCPS identifies students in the areas of:

General Intellectual Aptitude (GIA): Such students demonstrate superior reasoning; persistent intellectual curiosity; advanced use of language; exceptional problem solving; rapid acquisition and mastery of facts, concepts, and principles; and creative and imaginative expression across a broad range of intellectual disciplines beyond their age-level peers. Such students demonstrate the potential to be successful in a rigorous general intellectual gifted aptitude program.

Visual and Performing Arts Aptitude: Such students demonstrate superior creative reasoning, imaginative expression, persistent artistic curiosity, advanced acquisition and mastery of techniques, concepts, and principles beyond their age-level peers. Such students demonstrate the potential to be successful in a rigorous visual or performing arts aptitude program.

In alignment to Virginia Code 8VAC20-40-60A.1, VBCPS does not use any single criterion to deny or guarantee eligibility for gifted education services.

Learn about locating the Gifted Application:

English: https://youtu.be/FLM3bNZM7Wc
Spanish: https://youtu.be/ts5uUO8fjns

 

For more information about gifted services at each level, click on the gifted education tabs below.