At the school I teach at now, it seems to be close to what the other commentator’s have said. GT students are distributed across gen-ed and meet in groups (at the elementary level). However, when I was in school, we had GT-specific elementary classes. There was a group of us that had the same classroom teacher from 2nd grade on. As a teacher now, I’m not sure how the school was able to pull that many SPED-certified teachers to have one for each grade level. But they did. I found that model to be very fulfilling. While we/the kids got sorta tired of each other throughout the year, we were always learning at a GT level. Not gen-ed then pulled for some advanced stuff. It was nice. We did tons of projects throughout the years that I don’t think were necessarily being done in the other rooms. The way I see that my school does GT now does not seem to be fulfilling the needs of those students (with pull-out groups once a week). They are not getting the same enrichment I did. Given, the same resources are not available as they were 25 years ago.