Prospect Ridge Academy has submitted its annual Unified Improvement Plan (UIP) to the Colorado Department of Education on October 1, following the plan’s review by the School Accountability Committee (SAC) and PRA Board of Directors.
The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) Unified Improvement Planning (UIP) process, established under the 2009 Education Accountability Act, requires all public schools and districts to complete an annual continuous improvement plan. The process merges state, federal, and program requirements into a single streamlined framework. Click here to learn more about the UIP process.
PRA’s UIP goals submitted for the 2026-27 school year were identified after analyzing the results of the 2025-26 School Performance Framework (SPF). And the submitted UIP targets reflect PRA’s institutional goals outlined in the 2030 Strategic Plan for “Achieve Academic Excellence” and “Building Community and Culture.”
K-8 UIP Targets
Elementary: PRA will move from 45% to 50% on the K-5 student survey question #3 (School Belonging) - "How much respect do students at your school show you" by the end of the 26-27 school year.
Middle School: PRA will move from 35% to 40% on the 6-8 student survey question #3 (School Belonging) - "How much respect do students at your school show you" by the end of the 26-27 school year.
Elementary: Raise our CMAS Literacy Growth (MGP) performance from 43 to 50.
Middle School: Raise our CMAS Literacy Growth (MGP) performance from 46 to 50.
Elementary: By the end of the 26-27 school year, 85% of third grade students will be at grade level or above.
K-8: By the end of the 26-27 school year, PRA will decrease the number of students two or more grade levels below to 7%.
K-8: Strengthening our Writing Instruction
PRA Interim K-8 Principal, Sarah Shoemaker, said the Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS) data from last spring’s testing were also a determining factor when setting PRA’s K-8 goals for the 2026-27 UIP.
“On the K-8 side, we have chosen the writing focus for this year’s UIP because our math scores are higher and already meet the expectations. We are wanting to increase our writing scores to reach a 50 median growth percentile,” Shoemaker said. “We were able to pull apart CMAS data this year and find that we need to work more specifically on written expression. This will be our focus each Professional Development day this year, and at staff meetings, to increase our writing scores over the entire K-8.”
High School UIP Targets
High School: PRA will maintain SAT mean scale score at or above 1134
High School: PRA will maintain student involvement in extracurricular activities at or above 96%
High School: PRA will move from 54% to 59% on the 9-12 student survey question #3 (School Belonging) - "How much respect do students at your school show you" by the end of the 26-27 school year.
PRA High School Principal, Adam DiGiacomo, is proud of the years of hard work that has gone into PRA reaching its current benchmarks and sees this 2026-27 UIP as a natural progression of the high school’s current performance.
“Because of the strong research-based correlation between school culture, student involvement/belonging, and academic success, the high school has established performance priorities in all three of these areas,” DiGiacomo said. “Over the years, we have consistently seen strong results on the School Performance Framework (SPF) in academic achievement, academic growth, and post-secondary workforce readiness. As a result, the continuous improvement efforts we’ve chosen to work on can be seen within the 2026-27 Unified Improvement Plan.”