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Gifted Education

Humboldt Unified School District (HUSD) provides challenging curriculum to gifted students through differentiated instruction designed to best meet their academic and affective needs.

Our gifted program offers meaningful learning experiences that promote an enriched and in-depth understanding of the core curriculum. These best practices in gifted education guide and shape our programs across the district.

Vision

Prepare Humboldt Unified students for a global and technologically advanced society by fostering:

  • Advanced academic learning
  • Appropriate social skills
  • Emotional stability
  • Ethical decision-making and leadership

Program Goals

Provide learning experiences that are responsive to the cognitive, creative, and affective development of gifted students by:

  • Applying educational theory and research-based models of curriculum and instruction
  • Ensuring culturally relevant learning
  • Designing programs to achieve specific student outcomes

Gifted Assessments

The Humboldt Unified School District (HUSD) provides gifted testing opportunities three times a year, as mandated by the Arizona Department of Education.

Abilities measures are essential for identifying students who may be gifted. These assessments are designed to be administered only once per calendar year. For example, if your student tested in the fall of the previous school year, they will be eligible to test again in or after the fall of the following year.

HUSD Gifted Testing Schedule:

  • Fall: Grades 1, 3–8
  • Winter: All second graders (district-wide testing)
  • Spring: Grades K–1, 3–7

 

For more information on HUSD's Gifted Programs, please contact your school's front office.