Boxwood Public School - Gifted Program

Gifted Program

Boxwood began to offer a gifted program in September 2006 to students classified as Exceptional/Gifted by the grade 3 psychological screening. The other new gifted school in the eastern portion of the York Region District School Board is John McCrae Public School. The reason for the expansion of the gifted program to Boxwood Public School was that the need for gifted instruction kept growing in York Region. The original gifted program offered by Roy H. Crosby Public School and William Berczy Public School could no longer satisfy the demand.

In September 2006, Boxwood only offered grade 4 gifted program. It is now expanded to grade 5, 6, 7 and grade 8. As of September 2009, there are six gifted classes with about 150 gifted students, roughly about 30 percent of the school population.

Since the demand for gifted instruction remains strong, York Region District School Board announced in January 2010 that the elementary gifted program was once again expanded. From September 2010, a new grade 4 gifted program will be commenced at Parkland Public School. A grade will be added each year until full implementation of the gifted program in 2014.

Students who are considered to be Exceptional/Gifted from Aldergrove Public School, Armadale Public School, Highgate Public School, Milliken Mills Public School, Parkland Public School, Randall Public School, and Wilclay Public School will no longer go to the gifted program at Boxwood PS. They will instead go to Parkland PS.

This new program is in addition to the program at Boxwood. It is not replacing Boxwood's gifted program. Students that are currently attending Boxwood PS gifted program will remain at Boxwood.

Upon graduation at grade 8, Boxwood gifted students usually go to Markham District High School or Markville Secondary School to continue their secondary school gifted program, depending on the student's home location. They can also choose to return to their original home school.

  • Room 201, one of the grade 6 classrooms on the second floor.

  • The science corner in classroom 201.

  • Room 136. One of the kindergarten classrooms on the first floor.

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