Pea Ridge School District parent navigator Last updated 09/09/2026
Pea Ridge accepts family, staff, and community referrals at any time and uses multiple evidence sources with no single cutoff. Services progress from K-2 whole-group enrichment to at least 150 minutes of weekly Grades 3-6 pullout and secondary advanced coursework.
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When your family may need to act
Use the row that matches your child's grade and situation. Dates below come from the linked district instructions; confirm them before submitting.
K-12 students
Referrals are accepted at any time. Ask the GT coordinator when the next placement committee meets and submit observations, recommendations, and available achievement evidence before that review.
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Use the Parent Guide free. Choose Navigator when you want the process managed around your child. Choose Mentor when you want to connect that local opportunity to a longer-term interest, real projects, and a private record of growth. Bloomfield turns Gifted and Talented into three clear layers of support.
Get the local program name, grades, identification process, services, deadlines, parent steps, and official instructions—all in plain language.
Navigator adds a child-specific timeline, deadline and policy alerts, a guided checklist, and one place to organize forms, work samples, and questions for the school.
Mentor includes Navigator plus a 12-week pathway, four short weekly challenges, one substantial monthly project, a Friday parent insight, and a private Growth Portfolio.
What the official record confirms
Applicable school year: 2026-27. Bloomfield separates official requirements from our preparation guidance.
Published coverageK-12: K-2 enrichment, Grades 3-6 pullout, and Grades 7-12 advanced pathways
Published processParents, staff, and community members may refer at any time. Pea Ridge gathers teacher and parent recommendations, observations, grades, test results, and at least two subjective and two objective measures. A committee of at least five, including the principal, counselor, and teachers, makes placement decisions without relying on a single criterion or cutoff and sends families a permission or non-placement letter.
Published modelK-2 classrooms receive whole-group enrichment designed jointly by the gifted and classroom teachers. Grades 3-6 receive at least 150 minutes of weekly pullout using literacy, math, STEAM, coding, robotics, Quiz Bowl, and interest projects. Grades 7-12 use differentiated honors, pre-AP, AP, and concurrent-credit classes plus college and career planning; Scholars Academy is an additional rigorous option open beyond formal GT identification.
Your family's route
This plan translates the published process without changing it. Confirm current district instructions before submitting.
Adds the date and task to one family plan, with alerts before it becomes urgent.
Turns the district language into a short list of questions to confirm with your school.
Provides guided prompts and one private place to organize authentic examples and documents.
Tracks forms, confirmations, and any related enrollment or transfer step.
Keeps the decision, follow-up, and appeal questions together so the next move is clear.
Application support
District forms and prompts vary. This annotated, fictional example shows how to turn a real observation into useful evidence without copying language or inventing accomplishments.
Explore the annotated example →What have you observed that shows your child may need greater depth, complexity, or pace?
“After her model failed, Maya changed one part at a time, recorded each result, and explained why the designs failed differently.”
Parent-to-parent
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Trust is part of the product
The program facts above come from the linked official sources. Bloomfield's checklist translates those facts into practical next steps without predicting selection or presenting parent anecdotes as district policy.
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A plain-language explanation or constructive preparation recommendation.
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Primary sources
Last updated 09/09/2026. Program rules can change; verify the current school year with Pea Ridge School District before acting.