The School Board of the City of Virginia Beach calls a special meeting to receive public input on the consolidation of Bayside 6th Grade Campus and Bayside Middle School.
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.
- Elementary School Gifted Education Grades K-5
- Middle School Gifted Education Grades 6-8
- Old Donation School Grades 2-8
- High School Gifted Education Grades 9-12