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PEGS

The St. Louis Regional Program for Exceptionally Gifted Students (PEGS) offers curricular acceleration and enrichment opportunities for exceptionally gifted students in grades 1-12. This regional public school program was established to assist local school districts in providing for the unique needs of these exceptionally gifted students.  PEGS is a tier 3 support for highly gifted students with about 1% of gifted students qualifying for this level of learning intervention.

Intellectually and academically exceptional students need a demanding and fast-paced curriculum. These students also benefit from regular interaction with intellectual peers. PEGS provides an appropriately challenging curriculum that enables these students to be creative producers, socially adjusted individuals, and effective leaders.

PEGS is located at Lindbergh’s Idea Center, Sperreng Middle School and Lindbergh High School.

The application deadline for the 2027-28 school year is March 1, 2027.

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PEGS Curriculum

The PEGS curriculum encompasses learning objectives of the State of Missouri as well as those of the Lindbergh Schools and the Pattonville School District, thereby ensuring that students have mastered expected core competencies.

The differentiated curriculum uses a carefully selected multi-text approach and an enriching curriculum that emphasizes accelerated content, real-life problem-solving, creative production, and higher-level thinking skills.  Students progress through the curriculum based on their demonstrated mastery of skills.

PEGS curriculum assures mastery of the basic knowledge and skills contained in the frameworks of the school districts housing the program. PEGS provides an accelerated and enriched curriculum for exceptionally gifted students based on the following principles:

  • Accelerated learning through curriculum compacting
  • Advanced training in critical and creative thinking skills
  • Research skills
  • Creative production of projects based on topics of special interest to students
  • Special assistance with social and emotional growth
  • Age-based fine arts and physical education programming

A PEGS Handbook is available upon request. Please contact the Idea Center for a PDF version of this document.

PEGS Previews

PEGS previews are held both in-person and virtually.  All previews are scheduled from 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 or 10:30 a.m. Virtual previews will be held via Google Meets. Dr. Tracy Bednarick-Humes, gifted education coordinator, will present an overview of the program, answer questions and give a tour of gifted facilities.
Please select the date you'd like to attend and fill out the corresponding form.  A Google Meet link will be shared with registered participants a few days before the event.

For more information regarding PEGS North previews at Rose Acres Elementary School in the Pattonville School District, please call 314-213-8009.

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