In Colorado, a grassroots accountability and continuous improvement network is uniting far-flung rural school districts--with members as many as 400 miles apart--in a collaborative effort to address the unique needs of Colorado's rural students. As in other states, Colorado rural districts must deal with funding disparities, isolation, education policies driven by urban voices, and small enrollments, which, when coupled with lower per-pupil revenues, result in tight district budgets and make it hard to offer equitable opportunity for all students. The state legislature passed a bill to create Local Accountability System Grants in 2019, and the Colorado State Board of Education awarded $450,000 in grants in spring 2020. The Student-Centered Accountability Program (S-CAP), a grassroots accountability and continuous improvement network driven by a geographically diverse group of rural district leaders, received one of the grants. Created in 2015, S-CAP was also a source of inspiration for the legislation that created the grant program. Its lessons learned may also help state boards nationwide as they grapple with how to make accountability relevant amidst COVID realities and how to better serve small, remote districts and school settings that serve nontraditional student populations with small n-sizes.