Which grade does Peel test for gifted?

Grade 4. Some Grade 4 students take a cognitive abilities assessment, and students in other grades can also be considered for identification.

Does Peel still use the CCAT-7?

Peel lists the CCAT 7 among its assessment tools, and older Peel documents describe it in Grade 4. Its current gifted page names the NGAT as an example of the Grade 4 assessment, so ask your school which one your child will take this year.

Does every Grade 4 student in Peel write it?

Peel’s page says some Grade 4 students may take part, not all. Your school’s special education resource teacher can tell you who takes it at your school.

What is Learning Hub 25?

Peel’s full-time special education class for students identified as gifted, at the junior and intermediate levels. The other option is the In School Enhanced Learning Program in a regular class.

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Peel gifted screening

Peel District School Board · from the board’s own documents · checked 25 October 2026

Peel identifies gifted students in Grade 4. Some Grade 4 students take a cognitive abilities assessment, such as the NGAT, and a Student Review Meeting then looks at it with classroom evidence and family input, and can recommend more assessment or an IPRC. Peel bases identification on several sources of information, not one test.

At a glance

Grade: Grade 4; students in other grades can also be considered
Test: A cognitive abilities assessment, such as the NGAT. Peel also lists the CCAT 7, the NNAT and the KTEA-3 among its tools
Who: Some Grade 4 students, in Peel’s words
Next step: A Student Review Meeting (SRM), which can refer to an IPRC
Placements: In School Enhanced Learning Program, or the full-time Learning Hub 25 (junior and intermediate)

Step by step

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A cognitive abilities assessment · Grade 4
Some Grade 4 students take a cognitive abilities assessment, such as the NGAT. Older Peel documents describe the CCAT-7 in Grade 4; Peel’s current page names the NGAT as an example and lists the CCAT 7 among its tools.
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The Student Review Meeting
A Student Review Meeting looks at the assessment alongside classroom evidence, student voice and family input. It can recommend differentiated programming, more assessment, or a referral to an IPRC.
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The IPRC
An Identification, Placement and Review Committee decides whether a student meets the criteria for Intellectual: Gifted, and the placement. Parents can share information about their child before and during the meeting.

Where it leads

A regular class with indirect support: the In School Enhanced Learning Program (ISELP).
A full-time special education class: Learning Hub 25 (LH 25), at the junior and intermediate levels.

Can you practise for it?

Peel’s pages don’t ask families to prepare and describe identification as resting on several sources of information, including classroom work and family input, rather than one score. Reasoning built at home — word and number games, puzzles, explaining how you got an answer — shows up in all of them.

Cub Climb is a set of original reasoning puzzles with words, numbers and pictures, from kindergarten to grade 5: a child finds the answer, then names the rule. It is not a copy of any test and makes no promise about results.

Questions Peel parents ask

Which grade does Peel test for gifted?
Grade 4. Some Grade 4 students take a cognitive abilities assessment, and students in other grades can also be considered for identification.
Does Peel still use the CCAT-7?
Peel lists the CCAT 7 among its assessment tools, and older Peel documents describe it in Grade 4. Its current gifted page names the NGAT as an example of the Grade 4 assessment, so ask your school which one your child will take this year.
Does every Grade 4 student in Peel write it?
Peel’s page says some Grade 4 students may take part, not all. Your school’s special education resource teacher can tell you who takes it at your school.
What is Learning Hub 25?
Peel’s full-time special education class for students identified as gifted, at the junior and intermediate levels. The other option is the In School Enhanced Learning Program in a regular class.

Build the reasoning, not the test

Short, original puzzles with words, numbers and shapes. Your child answers, then names the rule.

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Or print free reasoning worksheets, kindergarten to grade 5.

Sources

Peel DSB, Gifted Learning — peelschools.org

CCAT-7 is a trademark of Nelson Education. Cub Climb is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any test publisher or to the Peel District School Board. Boards change their process from year to year; check what your own school sends home for this year’s dates.