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Transfer Students

SBISD has two referrals for transfer students;
Please read carefully to determine which procedure is appropriate for your child.

1) Students who have Previously Received Gifted Services:
     a)  Prior to completing your G/T referral, please email your child's name, birthdate, and current grade level, along with G/T test records from the previous district confirming your child's G/T status.  The Advanced Academics office will review your child's records and contact you to let you know that the platform is ready for your child's transfer referral (Note:  If you try submitting a transfer referral before we create your child's profile, the transfer referral will not submit correctly).  

     b)  Once your child's profile has been created, please complete the transfer referral form (español) at the time your child is transferring into SBISD (If your child will transfer to the district at the beginning of the school year, please complete the transfer referral anytime after Spring Break).

Please note that all districts use a different identification standard.  If the SBISD Transfer Committee requires more information to make a decision, your child may be offered the opportunity for additional testing.

2) Students that have NOT Previously Received Gifted Services:
     If your child is transferring to SBISD from out-of-state, home-school, or from a private school where gifted services were not available, please, complete the the Off-Cycle Parent Referral form to refer your child for G/T consideration at SBISD.  You will be able to submit any previous testing you have for your child, or if you have no previous records, that is also okay.  The Advanced Academics office will review any records and contact you with next steps. 
 

Note:  The Off-Cycle referral link is open only between late March and mid-August and is inactive during the regular school year.  We do our best to properly assess and place your child for the up-coming school year.

GT Summer Evaluation

Registration for summer testing will open in late March and will close July 15th.  Once we receive a referral, we will email the exact test date and location.

If after reading the criteria below, you decide to refer your child for gifted services in SBISD, please submit the referral form that is appropriate for your child (See Transfer Students section for details).  

Summer testing is appropriate for students in the following situations:

  1. Student moved into SBISD after the GT referral deadline for the previous school year.
  2. Student is entering SBISD from a private school or home school that did not offer gifted services.
  3. Student is transferring in from another public school district without a GT program.

For families meeting these criteria, a Summer Evaluation may be requested for students entering grades 1st-12th.

Note, entering kindergarten students should not be referred during the summer.  Rather, kindergarten students will go through the regularly scheduled GT evaluation process in the fall of their kindergarten year.

Please note, to maintain the validity of our evaluation, summer testing takes the place of an evaluation during the regular school year.  Students are only evaluated once every 12 months.

Transferring to SBISD or Summer Testing Questions: Linda.Bimler@springbranchisd.com