The Colorado
School Awards Program was created in the 2000 Colorado
General
Assembly
to recognize the highest-performing
and most-improved public schools in the state, as determined
by the School
Accountability Reports.
The John
Irwin Award is named after a former state legislature.
It
is only
for the
top eight percent of
schools in the state for academics. Elementary, middle
school, and high school can all receive the John Irwin
Award.
The John
Irwin Schools of Excellence Awards target the highest-performing
schools. During
the 2000/2001
school year, 122 schools received excellent ratings
and were designated John Irwin Schools of Excellence.
For the following
year (2001/2002), 143 schools were recognized by the
John
Irwin Schools
of Excellence
Award.
Beginning
with the 2002 School Year results, awardees will be
those
schools
whose
overall standardized, weighted
total score for academic performance on the School
Accountability Report is within the top eight percent
of all public schools.
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