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Elementary Highly Capable Programs

Young Scholars (Grades K-2)

QUEST Program (Grades 3-6)

2026-27 Highly Capable Program Application

Required

Highly capable students are students who perform or show potential for performing at significantly advanced academic levels when compared with others of their age, experiences, or environments. Outstanding abilities are seen within students' general intellectual aptitudes, specific academic abilities, and/or creative productivities within a specific domain. These students are present not only in the general populace but are present within all protected classes.
 
Students who are highly capable may possess, but are not limited to these learning characteristics:
  • Capacity to learn with unusual depth of understanding, to retain what has been learned, and to transfer learning to new situations;
  • Capacity and willingness to deal with increasing levels of abstraction and complexity earlier than their chronological peers;
  • Creative ability to make unusual connections among ideas and concepts;
  • Ability to learn quickly in their area(s) of intellectual strength; and
  • Capacity for intense concentration and/or focus.
By checking yes, I acknowledge my child possesses the highly capable characteristics listed above.required
My student was referred byrequired
I was enrolled in a school in the Puyallup School District in the 2025-26 school year.required
Must contain a date in MM/DD/YYYY format. Valid range: Jan 1, 2008 – Dec 31, 2021
Student Gender?required
Parent/Guardian is a current employee of the Puyallup School District.required
Is the Parent/Guardian a current member of the military (or in the past 12 months)?required
Has the student participated in a Highly Capable or Gifted program in the past?
Has your child been tested for the Highly Capable program this school year?required
Does your child need any special testing accommodations as specified in a 504 Plan or IEP?
Cityrequired
Staterequired
By checking yes below, I acknowledge that if my student is a current resident of PSD and lives in a school attendance area, testing is for placement the following school year unless student is new to the district. This is true for both private school and homeschool students.(Fall kindergarten testing is for placement for the same school year. If student is just moving into the area, he/she may receive current year placement.)required
By checking yes below I acknowledge testing will take place at our testing center and transportation will need to be provided by family.*required
By checking yes below I acknowledge I will receive my student's test date, time and instruction to the email address I listed on this application. required
By checking yes, I acknowledge I will receive my student's test results and placement decision in the USPS mail at the address I provided on this application. required
If my child is new to the district, I will provide all assessment scores for reading, math, state and highly capable programs from the previous school/or schools to highlycapable@puyallupsd.org. required
Please read the PSD Highly Capable Identification Model for the next step of the application.
I have read the PSD Highly Capable Identification Model, and I give consent for my child to be tested by the Highly Capable Learner’s Program to determine eligibility and/or possible placement in the highly capable program.required

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