To highlight the school districts across the state where GT students are demonstrating Outstanding Educational Progress, OEP is excited to award the first annual Growth awards for Gifted and Talented students!
We are excited to share that Pea Ridge School District was awarded an OEP GT Growth award! Pea Ridge GT students demonstrated the third highest growth among medium-sized districts. You can read more details in their blog and check out how other districts are performing in our new datasets of GT Growth Values.
These OEP Awards are based on the overall value-added growth of GT students in 2022-23 and are awarded to the top three districts in the small, medium, and large enrollment groups used for selecting districts for Act 56 awards. We applaud our students that continue to grow academically even though they may already be performing above grade level. Go Blackhawks!