Batavia Public School District 101 parent navigator Last updated 09/09/2026
Batavia begins primary high-ability identification during the winter of Grade 3. Students with consistently at-or-above 95th-percentile NWEA MAP results may enter Grade 4 reading, mathematics, or combined services, while families and teachers may request an individualized secondary review.
Independent from Batavia Public School District 101. 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.
Grade 3
The district begins primary identification in winter but posts no exact date. Ask the high-ability teacher before winter MAP testing for the screening and notification calendar.
Verify with the district ↗Students not selected through primary screening
No closing date is posted. Contact the school high-ability teacher to initiate an individualized review and ask for the building decision date.
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 High-Ability Services — Gifted and Talented 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 coverageGrade 3 identification; Grades 4-12 services
Published processAll Grade 3 students receive small-group contact with high-ability teachers, which helps surface students not captured by traditional criteria. Primary screening uses consistently at-or-above 95th-percentile NWEA MAP results. A parent or teacher may contact the school high-ability teacher for secondary review using additional achievement, ability, or aptitude evidence. Building-level decisions are final under the posted process.
Published modelGrades 4-5 use clustered classrooms, differentiated Jr. Great Books or Jacob's Ladder reading, and compacted mathematics that can reach Grade 6 standards by Grade 5. Grades 6-12 offer advanced, enrichment, and honors-type courses; Batavia also maintains separate early-entry, subject-acceleration, and whole-grade-acceleration routes.
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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Primary sources
Last updated 09/09/2026. Program rules can change; verify the current school year with Batavia Public School District 101 before acting.