Paradise Valley Unified School District parent navigator Last updated 09/09/2026
PVSchools publishes a detailed 2026-27 gifted roadmap: districtwide nomination, three annual testing cycles, exact permission deadlines and campus dates, a 97th-percentile or approved IQ pathway, K-6 delivery models, and separate applications for selective comprehensive and secondary programs.
Independent from Paradise Valley Unified School District. Official district instructions always control.
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.
Grades K-1 and 3-6 according to the student's campus schedule
The form opens December 1, 2026 and closes January 29, 2027. Campus testing occurs in February and March, with makeups June 1-4 for students already rostered.
Verify with the district ↗Grades 4-6 according to the student's campus schedule
The form opens July 1 and closes August 21, 2026. Campus testing occurs from late August through October, with district makeups October 28-29 for students already on a roster.
Verify with the district ↗Current second graders
Schools administer universal testing in December 2026 or January 2027 according to the campus schedule. A family completes the opt-out form only if it does not want participation.
Verify with the district ↗How Bloomfield Academy helps
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 Education 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 coveragePreschool through Grade 12, including K-3 cluster grouping, Grades 4-6 specialist replacement, comprehensive gifted classrooms, and named middle- and high-school pathways
Published processParents, teachers, and administrators may nominate a student. PVSchools identifies for general gifted services with a score at or above the 97th percentile in verbal, quantitative, or nonverbal reasoning, or an approved Full Scale IQ of 128 or above. Grade 2 receives universal CogAT testing, other elementary grades use fall or spring permission forms, and results normally arrive by email within two to three weeks.
Published modelK-3 students may receive schoolwide cluster grouping with trained teachers; Grades 4-6 receive gifted-specialist mathematics and/or reading content replacement. Select qualified students can apply for full-day Comprehensive Gifted Classrooms in K-6, with some work up to two years above grade. The district also publishes gifted preschool, Journey and Quest middle-school options, and high-school gifted pathways.
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
Share practical, firsthand wisdom about Gifted Education. Parent experience is kept separate from the official program facts above.
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.
Supported by the district links and applicable school year shown on this guide.
A plain-language explanation or constructive preparation recommendation.
Shown only when it is dated, moderated, and clearly labeled—not as an official rule.
Primary sources
Last updated 09/09/2026. Program rules can change; verify the current school year with Paradise Valley Unified School District before acting.