STEP selection notice
Grades 1-6
Mid-September
Families of qualifying students receive a letter by the middle of September.
Verify with the district ↗Little Egg Harbor School District parent navigator Last updated 09/09/2026
Student Enrichment Program (STEP),
made navigable.
Little Egg Harbor annually evaluates K-6 students for STEP using a detailed multi-measure matrix. Grades 1-6 families are notified by mid-September and Kindergarten families by late February; students may qualify in ELA, math, cross-curricular learning, or more than one area.
Independent from Little Egg Harbor School District. Official district instructions always control.
NJlocal district program
2026-27school year reviewed
3official sources reviewed
2deadlines or checkpoints
When your family may need to act
The published timeline, in one place.
Use the row that matches your child's grade and situation. Dates below come from the linked district instructions; confirm them before submitting.
Kindergarten STEP notice
Kindergarten
Mid-September
Families of qualifying Kindergarten students receive a letter by late February.
Verify with the district ↗How Bloomfield Academy helps
Understand the program.
Manage the process.
Build the learner.
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 Student Enrichment Program (STEP) into three clear layers of support.
01Parent GuideFree
Know what the program actually requires.
Get the local program name, grades, identification process, services, deadlines, parent steps, and official instructions—all in plain language.
02Navigator$79 / year
Turn the process into your family's plan.
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.
03Bloomfield Mentor$149 / year
Turn a future interest into work your child can do now.
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
Know the program.
Know the route.
Applicable school year: 2026-27. Bloomfield separates official requirements from our preparation guidance.
Who and which grades
Published coverageK-6, with separate subject eligibility
How students are considered
Published processK-2 evidence includes DIBELS mClass, i-Ready mathematics and ELA, Habits of Success, KBIT-II, Raven's nonverbal screener, and teacher recommendation. Grades 3-6 add report cards, ELA LinkIt, and NJSLA for Grades 4-6. Students are evaluated every year.
What service can look like
Published modelSTEP uses push-in, pull-out, and schoolwide enrichment. K-2 focuses on project learning such as coding, engineering, writing and gardening. Grades 3-6 add novel studies, competitions, logic, poetry and strategy; Grade 5 includes Peer Buddies and Grade 6 builds a portfolio for later GATE applications.
Your family's route
See the next move—and where Bloomfield helps.
This plan translates the published process without changing it. Confirm current district instructions before submitting.
Your next moveAsk the STEP teacher for the annual recommendation window and the exact mid-September or late-February notice date.
How Bloomfield helps
Adds the date and task to one family plan, with alerts before it becomes urgent.
Your next moveRequest every applicable DIBELS, i-Ready, LinkIt, NJSLA, KBIT-II, Raven's, Habits of Success, report-card, and teacher-rating result.
How Bloomfield helps
Turns the district language into a short list of questions to confirm with your school.
Your next moveConfirm whether the child was considered independently for ELA, mathematics, and cross-curricular qualification.
How Bloomfield helps
Provides guided prompts and one private place to organize authentic examples and documents.
Your next moveRequest the matrix, weights or decision rules and the written selection result.
How Bloomfield helps
Tracks forms, confirmations, and any related enrollment or transfer step.
Your next moveIf admitted, confirm the push-in, pull-out, and schoolwide service schedule and the projects matched to the child's subject need.
How Bloomfield helps
Keeps the decision, follow-up, and appeal questions together so the next move is clear.
Your next moveFor an entrance appeal, follow the published teacher, curriculum director, and superintendent chain; use the complaint form for alleged noncompliance.
How Bloomfield helps
Keeps the decision, follow-up, and appeal questions together so the next move is clear.
Application support
Prepare the story before you open the form.
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 →Parent observationFictional 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.”
01 Observable02 Child-led03 Need-focused
See why this works →Parent-to-parent
What would you tell another family?
Share practical, firsthand wisdom about Student Enrichment Program (STEP). Parent experience is kept separate from the official program facts above.
Opening the parent discussion…
Trust is part of the product
District rules and Bloomfield guidance stay clearly separated.
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.
Official requirement
Supported by the district links and applicable school year shown on this guide.
Bloomfield guidance
A plain-language explanation or constructive preparation recommendation.
Parent-reported insight
Shown only when it is dated, moderated, and clearly labeled—not as an official rule.
Primary sources
Read the published language yourself.
01Gifted and Talented Enrichment Program ↗02STEP Policies, Procedures and Services ↗032026-2027 District Home ↗
Last updated 09/09/2026. Program rules can change; verify the current school year with Little Egg Harbor School District before acting.