Every school encounters students who need to be considered for whole-grade acceleration to find a curriculum that better matches their abilities. Whether to grade skip a student is one of the more difficult and controversial questions that parents and educators may encounter, through research supports its use with certain gifted students. This resource is designed to guide a child study team in making this decision: structured format for data collection, systematic, research-based approach, numeric values assigned to key dimension, case studies and examples, relevant research on whole-grade acceleration, cost less than $15.00 per student, used by schools in all 50 states and Canada.