Highly Capable
Lake Washington School District (LWSD) offers highly capable programs for elementary students.
Full-time Quest - Currently, Lakeview Elementary is the site for the full-time program for Ben Rush students. The Full-time Quest program provides our most highly capable students the opportunity to engage in rigorous, challenging, integrated, and enriched curriculum with their academic peers. The program is designed to meet the needs of students who have been identified as having exceptional cognitive and academic ability by accelerating and enriching the district curriculum. Students are enrolled in a self-contained classroom all day, five days a week. Full-time Quest classes are multi-aged with a 2nd/3rd grade or 4th/5th grade grouping of students. The learning pace is faster than in the regular education program; students are expected to perform work that exceeds grade level standards by at least one grade level.
For more information on how your child can qualify for these programs and when to apply, visit Accelerated Programs.