GATE
BPUSD Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) Program
The GATE program seeks to provide GATE students with highly engaging and thought-provoking academic experiences that promote the development of:
- Scholarly behaviors
- Inquiry and research skills
- Critical thinking and creative thinking
- Leadership skills
The GATE program collaborates with parents to provide information and resources to nurture their child's unique GATE academic, intellectual, and social-emotional needs.
GATE Student Identification
Baldwin Park Unified School District is deeply committed to meeting the needs of our gifted students. Students are placed into the GATE program using a thorough, equitable, and thoughtful identification process that considers high academic achievement, intellectual capabilities, creative thinking, and leadership skills.
- This identification process typically begins during a child's 2nd-grade year.
- Students who are identified as GATE will then participate in either a pull-out Elementary GATE program, a 6th-grade special pull-out GATE creative writing project, or a highly creative and engaging project-based after-school Middle School GATE program.
- The specific details for each GATE program are presented at a GATE parent introduction meeting in September.
