​​​​Program Vision: 
Highly Capable students will develop their intellectual and creative talents while…

Program Mission:

The Valley School District will find and nurture talent in students, meeting their academic, psychological, and social needs ​by providing and supporting opportunities for them to:

• pursue their interests
• learn content at a personalized pace and level of complexity
• develop social/emotional skills
• connect and work with students of similar abilities

If you know a student who demonstrates advanced achievement, aptitude, or potential in academic and creative areas, please recommend him or her for inclusion in the Highly Capable Program. This unique program helps students develop their special abilities. It serves students in the Valley School, Paideia High School and Columbia Virtual Academy who exhibit special learning characteristics such as:

• unusual depth of understanding and retention
• creative, abstract or complex thinking and problem-solving
• excelling in science, history, writing, mathematics, and/or the fine arts
• the ability to learn very quickly