Irish Elementary principal presents priority‑improvement plan after CMAS declines; staff, parents back focus on student output and bilingual literacy

Irish Elementary Principal Lindsay Mosier presented the school’s Priority Improvement Plan to the Poudre School District Board on Oct. 7 after the school earned a priority improvement designation under Colorado’s School Performance Framework.

Mosier told the board that Irish’s total performance points dropped to about 41.6% in the most recent calculation — below the performance plan threshold the school had met in prior years — primarily because of lower CMAS median growth percentiles in fourth‑ and fifth‑grade math and English language arts.

Why it matters: Irish is PSD’s dual‑language program school; more than 60% of students are learning in a language other than English. Mosier’s team said the state framework’s heavy weighting of growth on fourth‑ and fifth‑grade CMAS means dips…