Orton Academy utilizes the state definition of a gifted student and this definition shall serve as the basis for implementing all gifted program elements as described below.

The state definition of gifted and talented is as follows:

Gifted students include gifted students with disabilities (i.e., twice-exceptional) and students with exceptional abilities or potential from all socioeconomic and ethnic, cultural populations. Gifted students are capable of high performance, exceptional production, or exceptional learning behavior under any or a combination of these areas of giftedness:

  • General Intellectual Ability
  • Specific Academic Aptitudes
    • Mathematics
    • Reading
    • Science
    • Social Studies
    • World Languages
    • Writing
  • Specific Talent Aptitudes
    • Creative or Productive Thinking
    • Dance
    • Leadership
    • Music
    • Performing Arts (theater, speech, and debate)
    • Visual Arts
    • Psychomotor