All of the West Valley elementary schools and West Valley Middle School are now taking nominations for the Program for Advanced Learning (PAL). This program offers challenging and rigorous curriculum to students that are highly capable academically and have demonstrated excellent academic skills . In order to qualify for this program students must generally score at the 90th percentile or higher on a standardized academic achievement test and at the 95th percentile or higher on an individual intelligence test.

PAL classes are currently offered for students in third, fourth and fifth grades at Wide Hollow Elementary School and West Valley Middle School offers a program for grades six and seven.

Teachers and parents are encouraged to recommend students for testing. If either parents or teachers would like to have a child/student tested for the third, fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh grade class please contact your school’s principal.

For information about Honors classes at the junior high school (Grades 8 and 9) and Advanced Placement classes at the high school (Grades 10-12), please go to this website: http://www.wvsd208.org/academics/advancedplacement.asp

The coordinator for the elementary PAL program is Terry Faletto, Principal of Wide Hollow Elementary (965-2023).
The coordinator for the middle school advanced learning program is Dave Jaeger, Middle School Principal (972-5706).