John Irwin Schools of Excellence Award
The John Irwin awards are given to schools that demonstrate exceptional academic achievement over time. These schools received an Exceeds Expectations rating on the Academic Achievement indicator of the School Performance Frameworks reflecting exceptional performance in Math, English Language Arts, and Science. This award is given to less than 10% of all schools in Colorado. (2018)
Colorado Governor's Distinguished Improvement Award
The Colorado Governor's Distinguished Improvement Awards are given to schools that demonstrate exceptional student growth. On the school performance framework that is used by the state to evaluate schools, these schools "exceed" expectations on the indicator related to longitudinal academic growth and "meet or exceed" expectations on the indicator related to academic growth gaps. This award is given to less than 200 schools out of 2000 in the state of Colorado. (2018, 2019)