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Highly Capable Referrals

Parents of students currently in grades 3-5 may refer their child for SPS Highly Capable services.  Please complete the Highly Capable Referral and return it to your child’s school by October 31, 2024.   

All  2nd and 5th grade students in SPS are screened for highly capable services.  Parents do not need to provide a referral at these grades for your child to be screened.  Students are then determined for further assessment. 

Contact

Libby Center
Home of Odyssey & Tessera
509-354-7500

What to look for in a highly capable child:

  • Capacity to learn with unusual depth of understanding, to retain what has been learned, and positive learning characteristics.

  • Capacity and willingness to deal with increasing levels of abstraction and complexity earlier than their chronological peers.

  • Ability to learn quickly in their area(s) of strength

  • Capacity for intense concentration and/or focus

  • Unusual emotional depth and intensity

  • Idealism and sense of justice which appear at an early age

  • High expectations of self and others, sometimes leading to high levels of frustration with self and others: perfectionism

  • Highly developed sense of humor

Important Dates:

  • October 31, 2024: Referrals for Highly Capable Services

  • November - December 2024: CogAT testing

  • February: Identification and notification of current 3rd graders - 5th graders