Welcome to AzEDS reporting for Gifted Education

Beginning in FY23, the gifted and talented needs are no longer included in the SUP10 and SUP11 reports.  HB 2898 established a new Group B add-on weight for gifted pupils. The new “G” weight is limited to educational programs for gifted pupils who score at or above the 97th percentile, based on national norms (age or grade norms), on a test adopted by the State Board of Education. Qualifying pupils will generate the new 0.007 Group B add-on funding beginning in FY 2022 and the corresponding funding will appear in payments and on payment reports later this year.

The gifted program now has its own new AzEDS reports, the GIFT10 and the GIFT11:

• The GIFT10 lists all students who qualify for the gifted program using your locally developed and approved criteria as specified in your LEA’s approved Scope and Sequence for Gifted Education.  By reporting these students, you provide the ADE with an accurate count of students locally identified and served.
• The GIFT11 breaks down those students to their individual gifted needs of Language Arts (Verbal) giftedness, Non-Verbal giftedness, Quantitative (Math) giftedness or Other giftedness.  Students that score at or above the 97th percentile on a qualifying test should be reported using the need descriptors below. The exact descriptions might vary in different Student Information Systems (SIS), please contact your SIS vendor if you have questions about how to report the required values.

Students that have at least one of the above need descriptors reported will generate Average Daily Membership (ADM) that is funded at the new 0.007 add-on weight for educational programs for gifted pupils.  These reports can then be used in conjunction with the ADM reports to reconcile your data to the Gifted Group B funding data published by School Finance in the spring. 

The student need descriptor Other Giftedness should be used to report all other students that have been identified by the LEA as gifted student, but do not meet the required identification threshold for Group B funding (97th percentile or above). These students will not generate Group B add-on funding, which is limited to students that have been reported using one of the other three descriptors after having scored at or above the 97th percentile on a test adopted by the State Board of Education.

The list of State Board Approved Tests is published on the ADE Gifted Education website.

To view the GIFT10 and GIFT11 reports, you must have the ADEConnect Role of AzEDS Coordinator – Support Program Reports.  If you need assistance with the GIFT10 or GIFT11 reports, please submit a HelpDesk Ticket and an analyst will be able to assist you.