Bring a Green & Healthy Schoolyard to Your School!

Learn how Milwaukee schools are selected for the redevelopment process.

Milwaukee Public Schools are working with the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, the nonprofit Reflo and other project partners to select the 10th Cohort of green and healthy schoolyard redevelopment projects.

Recognizing that the redevelopment process is intended to attract significant investment into these schools, an equity-based approach has been developed based on need and enthusiasm. The criteria is understandably qualitative and to help make the determination, the larger Green Schools Consortium of Milwaukee is invited to help make the determination. The process involves invited schools to articulate their need and enthusiasm as selection committee participants have maps and other information available to help make their recommendations.

See the transformation of five Milwaukee schoolyards from Cohort 7, completed in 2025, through before-and-after drone footage captured just after redevelopment was finished:

now accepting applications for the 11th MPS cohort of schoolyard redevelopment projects

Please email Lisa Neeb, Green & Healthy Schools Program Manager, for questions, to request more information, or share your interest in the next grant cycle and opportunity to be offered in 2026.

Schools invited to share their need and enthusiasm for a greener, healthier schoolyard will present at the annual
School Selection Meeting in November 2026 (Date TBD). We will announce the grant recipients in a GSCM newsletter
and on social media outlets following the event. Sign up to receive the GSCM newsletter here.

Contact Lisa Neeb with questions.