Mayor Bloomberg reached out to his conservative base yesterday, offering up four new school programs for Staten Island students.

Flanked by the schools chancellor, Joel Klein, the Staten Island borough president, James Molinaro, and other officials, the mayor announced new plans for gifted and talented pupils, a school for children with a type of autism, a small high school, and a specialized high school – all at Staten Island.

It was the first time the mayor has targeted one of his education initiatives at a specific area of the city rather than at schools throughout the city.

“I think we do need to take a look at where the schools are and what we’re doing,” Mr. Bloomberg said. “There is no borough left behind, and I hope there’s no neighborhood left behind.”

The first goal Mr. Bloomberg announced involved turning Staten Island Technical High School into the borough’s first specialized high school. The school, which was host for the mayor’s news conference, already outperforms most of the city’s high schools.

Last year, all of its students passed the Regents exams in both math and English, while citywide only about 50% of students passed. The school also boasts attendance of more than 96%, compared to less than 85% citywide.

“This is a great school and I want to make sure we support it because it’s doing great work,” Mr. Klein said. “On the other hand, I think it can do yet better work. I want to see people from Staten Island Tech who are Intel finalists and who are Westinghouse finalists.” That was a reference to the two premier national science competitions for high-school students.

Mr. Klein said the new Staten Island Tech would be like Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. In the future, students from all over the city could compete for admission. The mayor said the experiment would create a kind of “cross-pollination” among high-school students.

Another set of initiatives the mayor announced, the new gifted-and-talented programs, will be launched in September at six elementary schools and one middle school at Staten Island. The programs will be based on the theories of the director of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented at the University of Connecticut, Joseph Renzulli, who is part of a group evaluating the city’s programs for gifted students.

The regional superintendent who oversees Staten Island schools, Michelle Fratti, said the schools would “design a program to challenge all of the students,” not only students who would traditionally be considered gifted.

“This is not a program about removing children from their zoned schools,” she said. “Each school will be designing a customized program to keep children in their neighborhood, so we’re not going to see mass movement from school to school.

“Each school will work to design a program to meet the needs of all students who have a variety of gifts and talents.”

Currently, there are no gifted-and-talented programs in Staten Island schools.

Mr. Klein said that although the new gifted programs will follow the Renzulli method, they don’t represent a new citywide model.

The new school for special-education students with Asperger’s Syndrome will open in September. It will start by serving kindergartners and eventually serve children through fifth grade.

The new small high school the mayor announced is to be housed at the College of Staten Island and called the College of Staten Island High School for International Studies. It will follow the small-schools model that the Bloomberg administration has implemented in other parts of the city. It would be the first small high school on Staten Island.