The Elementary Gifted Program in the Dade County Public Schools (DCPS), Florida, serves approximately 2,000 elementary school students through 13 school-center programs and 12 recently implemented home-school-based programs. The school-center program involves transportation from the home school to the center two days per week, while the home-school-based model provided gifted instruction in the student's home school. This preliminary evaluation describes the planning objectives, and instructional activities which characterized the program and identifies parental preferences for program features. Data were collected from questionnaires mailed to parents of all gifted students and a survey of program teachers through visitations at all program sites. Problematic areas noted by parents included the amount of time taken to identify and place children in the program, their understanding of grading standards, their knowledge of groups interested in gifted education, and regular program versus gifted program interaction. Parents were most supportive of the program objectives of creativity, problem solving, and communications skills and content areas including qualitative pursuits and hard sciences. Teacher lesson plans, objectives, and activities appeared appropriate at almost every site. Based on these findings, seven recommendations are made for program improvement. The appendix contains the parent questionnaire and responses. (BS)