Talented Schools

Most Talented children in the United States (and indeed, in Europe and Latin America) attend an ordinary or mundane grammar school until sixth or seventh grade. At that time, they are generally recruited by one of the high schools for the Talented. In the United States, these high schools include:

• Cape Cod Gifted Academy (Cape Cod, Massachusetts)
• Charleston School for the Talented (Charleston, South Carolina)
• Jacob Philadelphia High School (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• Marie Laveau High School (New Orleans, Louisiana)
• Munin High School (Minnesota)
• Redwoods Academy (California)
• St. Helen the Talented (Boulder, Colorado)
• Roswell Academy (Roswell, New Mexico)
• St. Augustine's School for the Talented (Nashville, Tennessee)
• St. Kateri Takeswitha High School (Dartmoor, Connecticut)
• Santa Catalina Prep School (Los Brujos, Texas)

Many of these schools fly under the proverbial radar by calling themselves charter schools.  Others, like St. Augustine, St. Kateri Takeswitha, St. Helen the Talented, and Santa Catalina, revert to the old tradition of naming Talented schools after saints and are therefore taken by non-Talented people to be parochial schools.  (St. Augustine, in particular, used this camouflage to protect its students from racist violence during de-segregation.)