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San Mateo-Foster City School District: gifted testing

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GATE (College Park and Bayside Academy)

Grades K-8

San Mateo-Foster City gives the online CogAT Screening Form 8 to 3rd graders who want to enroll in the College Park GATE program and 5th graders who want Bayside Academy's GATE program. Sign-up information is emailed in November and testing is at each school in January. Enrollment is limited and results help with placement; one test does not decide.

Test	Grades	Who	When
CogAT	3, 5	Students applying to the GATE programs	Sign-up in November; testing in January	source

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Sources:

Assessments (San Mateo-Foster City School District) (checked 2026-10-28)
NCES Common Core of Data, 2023-24 school directory (ZIP codes of the district's K-5 schools) (checked 2026-10-28)