We made Milwaukee Public Schools history in 2020 by earning the district’s first U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools Award, recognized for sustainability efforts like reducing our school’s carbon footprint and adopting healthy eating practices
State Recognition
At the state level, the Green & Healthy Schools Wisconsin initiative named us a Sugar Maple School in 2018. Green & Healthy Schools Wisconsin supports and encourages schools to create safe learning environments and prepares students to understand, analyze, and address current and emerging environmental and sustainability challenges through resources, recognition, and certification.
As a Sugar Maple school, Lincoln Avenue has analyzed and adopted sustainable, school-wide best practices in:
- Community involvement;
- Energy;
- Environmental and sustainability education;
- Environmental health (indoor air quality, chemical management, integrated pest management);
- Health and wellness;
- Recycling and waste management;
- School site;
- Transportation; and
- Water.
Green Schools Consortium of Milwaukee
In summer 2024, Lincoln Avenue joins our environmental education partner, Reflo, to redevelop our schoolyard. When it’s completed in fall 2025, our redeveloped schoolyard will transform how our students learn, play, and care for this community:
- Replacing 15,300 sq. ft. of asphalt with sustainable materials that support our school’s learning goals and conserve water in and around our campus.
- Bringing outdoor classrooms, a mindfulness garden, and 30 stormwater trees to Lincoln Avenue School.
- Including a synthetic turf soccer field to further manage rainwater where it falls — and keep our athletes busy during recess.