Who and which grades
Published coverageAges 4-21
Steamboat Springs School District RE-2 parent navigator Official local sources · reviewed 2026-09-08
Gifted Education,
made navigable.
Steamboat Springs accepts gifted referrals from families, educators, staff, peers, community members, and students. A trained team reviews a whole-child body of evidence, including alternate evidence for twice-exceptional and multilingual learners.
Independent from Steamboat Springs School District RE-2. Official district instructions always control.
What the official record confirms
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Applicable school year: 2026-27. Bloomfield separates official requirements from our preparation guidance.
How students are considered
Published processA referral triggers review of existing evidence and does not automatically mean more testing. The team may consider cognitive and achievement results, classroom performance, portfolios, teacher observations, parent input, creativity, leadership, problem solving, advanced work, and talent samples. No single measure decides eligibility.
What service can look like
Published modelEvery identified student receives a collaborative Advanced Learning Plan with academic and affective goals. Elementary services may combine classroom differentiation, enrichment, and pullout programming; talent-pool and social-emotional supports help students whose needs are advanced even before formal identification.
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 district gifted team or school gifted contact and request the current referral process.
02Name the suspected strength area and provide examples of advanced ability, achievement, creativity, leadership, or talent.
03Share parent observations, work samples, portfolio pieces, prior assessments, and context about disability or multilingual development when relevant.
04Ask which existing evidence the team will review, whether more testing is needed, and when the family will receive a decision.
05If identified, help set the ALP's academic and affective goals and confirm the differentiation, enrichment, pullout, talent-pool, and social-emotional supports.
Primary sources
Read the published language yourself.
Last reviewed 2026-09-08. Program rules can change; verify the current school year with Steamboat Springs School District RE-2 before acting.