This year, more than $8.3 million was invested in five Milwaukee Green & Healthy Schools projects, bringing the total to 42 transformed MPS schoolyards. Join us in celebrating: Cass Street School, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School, Emerson School, Milwaukee French Immersion School, and Trowbridge School of Great Lakes Studies.

The new spaces promote outdoor learning, healthy food access, social-emotional well-being, recreational opportunities, arts, and environmental sustainability through stormwater management and increased urban biodiversity.

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Asphalt covered schoolyard at Cass Street School - BEFORE redevelopment

Cass School Team on Nature Play elements during a walk through before school started to get familiar with the new schoolyard

New trees, shrubs, and native plants in the bioswale at Cass Street School

Giant underground stormwater storage cistern at MLK School

Installation of fun new Poured-in-Place rubber surfacing at Emerson School

Milwaukee French Immersion Schoolyard redeveloped, using a portion of the parking lot to now have space for a synthetic turf field and bioswale with native plantings

Great Lakes painted play/learning elements at Trowbridge

Future engineers and architects had opportunities to learn from the projects

Cass Street School - AFTER Schoolyard Redevelopment

Check out an overview below of the annual Green and Healthy Schoolyard Redevelopment process.

Interested in bringing a greener, healthier schoolyard to your community? Learn more about the schoolyard selection process and open application here.