The program was started in 1952 with the intention of keeping high-performing students in Colorado.

It does not adequately challenge high-performing students, who get low scores when compared with their peers in other nations.

Consistently high-performing students may also be invited to complete the 'honours' programme.

Some of the schools take only high-performing students who are virtually certain to graduate and go on to four-year colleges.

In some school districts exceptionally high-performing students are offered enrollment at a district college preparatory high school.

Meanwhile, the results of high-performing students who are seated in the back are not affected.

These seats are filled through the city's "educational option" formula, designed to achieve a mix of low-, average- and high-performing students.

In 1919, he was one of 12 high-performing students selected for extra tuition, and he came equal first in third year physiology.

Then statistics from a national field trial showed that two-thirds of high-performing students had chosen the absurd tea bag answer, sealing its doom.

She said the city was expanding advanced placement courses for high-performing students and had opened new alternative schools for dropouts.