The Colorado Department of Education has awarded the prestigious Governor's Distinguished Improvement Award to Ute Meadows Elementary. The 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. Ute Meadows Elementary is just one of 13 elementary schools in Jefferson Country to win this impressive award.