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About Us

Laureate School for the Gifted and Talented was founded by the accredited Laurel Springs School to provide a personalized learning path for gifted and talented students.

Laureate School is specifically designed to serve the unique academic needs of gifted students. With a personalized curriculum, Laureate School offers a wide variety of challenging educational opportunities to develop the intellect, encourage achievement and nurture personal development. Accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), our courses are certified by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the University of California (UC schools).

Our Mission

Laureate School for the Gifted and Talented offers a personalized learning path for the highly achieving student.

Laureate School provides:

1. A personalized, intellectually demanding curriculum preparing students for placement in prestigious colleges and universities.
2. The development of advanced learning skills which move beyond memory and recall to more complex levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
3. Curriculum characterized by intellectually stimulating content and interdisciplinary programs of study which offer exciting opportunities for independent research, exploration and discovery.
4. A receptive, student-centered environment that encourages questioning, exercising independence and using creativity.
5. Assessments that allow for demonstration of learning in a wide variety of forms consistent with personal learning styles and that allow for self-evaluation and reflection.
6. Freedom to pursue interests within the curriculum through personalized coursework and projects, which includes options for choice in course content.
7. The opportunity for acceleration or "compacting" of learning, with variety, flexible pacing and minimal repetition of materials or concepts.
8. Outlets for creative thinking, intellectual curiosity, independent study, innovation and in-depth exploration and for application of knowledge.
9. Opportunities for socialization, collaboration and group interaction, as well as self-understanding, the understanding of relationship to persons, societal institutions, nature and culture.
10. Guidance, college counseling, mentoring and self-development opportunities appropriate to the unique needs of the gifted student.