WESTMOUNT CHARTER SCHOOL
The Centre for Excellence
in Gifted Education
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Publicly Funded
established 1996 • K-grade 12

GIFTEDNESS

The specific mandate of Westmount Charter School is to provide an excellent, publicly-funded program for Gifted Learners. Westmount Charter School defines Giftedness in this way: "Students are gifted when they perform, or show potential for performing, remarkably high levels of accomplishment in learning rate, depth of knowledge, and reasoning and problem-solving abilities when compared to others of their age, experience, and environment."

Giftedness is a very complex phenomenon. To see some of the more common profiles of gifted learners, click here.

To learn more about the admissions testing done for grade 1-12 students at Westmount Charter School, click here.

Not all gifted learners present a profile of high academic achievement. To learn more about the phenomenon of gifted underachievement and the research currently being undertaken at Westmount in this area, click here.