Ha ha gifted students. My daughter went to school in fourth grade where the principal was married to the “head teacher” and they had two gifted children in the gifted and talented program.
My son begged to attend a "magnet school" in San Diego with a special program supplied by Scripps Institute of Oceanography. I allowed it in spite of having to put him at a bus stop at 5:30 AM and pick him up at 5:30 PM. He began to have problems at the inner city, predominantly hispanic and black school. He would get beat up at recess for being the academic "top fly" on the manure pile. The "magnet" program was 30 minutes on alternating Thursdays. Otherwise, the school was a glorified feeding program with breakfast, lunch and public financed babysitting. We pulled him out immediately after reports of a gunfight on the street within a block of the school.
We put my son back into the local school. The "magnet" school was over 4 weeks behind in the prescribed coursework syllabus compared to the local school. It took my son 2 weeks to catch up with the wasted time. There was a small silver lining. My son got to learn Spanish by immersion and polished that so well that he could represent real estate clients in court cases to help them understand the issues on the table and the explanations of what was expected of them. He parlayed that into a real estate business with 80% Spanish speakers in 2008 before the market crashed.