In Ohio today, approximately 250,000 students--rich and poor alike--are formally identified as gifted. Yet all too often, they sit in "grade-level" classrooms, bored with material they already know and held back by a system that too rarely challenges them. In this paper, Lyman Millard of the Bloomwell Group profiles Menlo Park Academy, a Cleveland-based charter public school that is dedicated to meeting the unique needs of gifted children. The irony of gifted learners is that, despite their intelligence, many children hide their abilities or become so disenchanted with school that they drop out. In fact, the drop-out rate is so high that the Ohio Department of Education considers gifted students to be "at risk." "It's not that these kids are better; they just learn differently," said one parent of a gifted student. As Ohio's only K-8 gifted and talented school, Menlo Park Academy will be many gifted children's best hope for reaching their true potential.