Who and which grades
Published coverageK-12 continuum with elementary pullout, a K-6 accelerated school-of-choice model, and secondary honors, AP, dual-enrollment, and college-prep pathways
Queen Creek Unified School District parent navigator Official local sources · reviewed 2026-09-08
Enhanced Learning Program (ELP),
made navigable.
Queen Creek's Enhanced Learning Program combines parent or teacher referral, CogAT testing in three seasonal windows, 97th-percentile eligibility, elementary small-group pullout, and accessible secondary advanced routes. Families request the current form and exact deadline from their school gifted specialist.
Independent from Queen Creek Unified School District. Official district instructions always control.
What the official record confirms
Know the program.
Know the route.
Applicable school year: 2026-27. Bloomfield separates official requirements from our preparation guidance.
How students are considered
Published processA parent or teacher may recommend testing, and standardized pre-assessment information may also prompt referral. Queen Creek uses CogAT 7 or 8 once per calendar year and identifies at or above the 97th percentile in verbal, nonverbal, or quantitative reasoning. Although identification can occur as early as kindergarten, the district recommends initial testing in Grade 2. The school gifted specialist supplies the parent referral form and current details.
What service can look like
Published modelElementary ELP uses homogeneous small-group pullout for project-based STEM, creative problem solving, public speaking, and tasks aligned to verbal, quantitative, or nonverbal strengths. Katherine Mecham Barney provides an accelerated K-6 school-of-choice option. Secondary students can use open-access advanced ELA, sequenced honors mathematics, AP and dual enrollment, plus Newell Barney College Prep's accelerated mathematics, Spanish, and science pathway.
Your starting checklist
Turn the published process into clear next steps.
Confirm current instructions with the district before submitting. Bloomfield does not predict placement or reproduce protected assessments.
01Contact the child's school gifted specialist, request the current parent referral form, and identify which early September, January, or May window is available.
02Confirm that at least twelve months have passed since any prior CogAT administration and ask whether CogAT 7 or 8 will be used.
03Request verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal percentile scores and verify whether any battery reached the 97th percentile.
04Ask the school to describe the actual ELP pullout schedule and how projects will connect to the student's identified strength area.
05For secondary planning, separate open-access ELA from sequenced mathematics prerequisites and review AP, dual-enrollment, and Newell Barney College Prep options before course registration.
Primary sources
Read the published language yourself.
01Queen Creek Enhanced Learning Program ↗02Queen Creek ELP Handbook ↗03Arizona Gifted Education FAQs ↗
Last reviewed 2026-09-08. Program rules can change; verify the current school year with Queen Creek Unified School District before acting.