Falls Church City Public Schools is committed to providing services that meet all learners' academic and social-emotional needs. We believe that education for advanced learners or learners with specific learning strengths must enhance aptitude, foster achievement, and nurture creativity through systematic, continuous services designed to help each child realize their potential as a learner. Instruction must be designed and paced to challenge each learner at the appropriate level and to stimulate complex thinking and problem-solving.

All FCCPS students have access to advanced academic services through a continuum. FCCPS believes that all students should have the opportunity for extension and enrichment; therefore, the FCCPS continuum of enrichment services is developed for all students.

The International Baccalaureate program provides rigorous opportunities for all students to develop their strengths through the learner profile. Further, some students demonstrate a high level of ability and achievement and need a more rigorous level of challenge with minimal support to empower them for intellectual growth and risk-taking.

The Advanced Academic identification process ensures these students have the classes, challenges, and extra opportunities necessary to meet their academic and social-emotional needs. This may include meeting a student's needs to go beyond grade-level standards. This will ensure a differentiated curriculum and an environment including increased depth and complexity, different pacing, and less scaffolding.