Ideas for Take Pride School Projects
- Clean up a park or a beach
- Replace or build playground equipment
- Create or improve wildlife habitat areas
- Maintain or build trails
- Guide visitors at a public lands facility
- Monitor water quality in public rivers
- Click here for volunteer opportunities in your area!
Take Pride in America Schools
The Take Pride Schools program was launched in the fall of 2005 to introduce a new generation to volunteerism and create future stewards of our public lands.
To be designated as a Take Pride School, a school must commit to participating in two Take Pride volunteer events each year benefiting public lands. Participation can be by an entire school, a class, or even an after-school club. Projects must be on public lands (public schools included!), promote Take Pride's message, and benefit public use of public land. Email us descriptions of your project along with photos of the event for Take Pride newsletters and website spotlights!
Take Pride School Spotlight
Students from West Geauga Middle School, a Take Pride School, worked together to renovate the gardens outside of their school building. In the process, the group was able to secure enough resources to preserve an area of wetland on their campus. Congratulations to West Geauga Middle School in Chesterland, Ohio for a job well done!
Sign Up Today!
Click here to register your school as a Take Pride School. The benefits to becoming a Take Pride School include:
Publicity Projects may be published on our website, in our newsletter, or in other publications.
National Awards Projects are eligible to receive one of our National Awards, presented annually at a ceremony in Washington, DC.
Networks Enter a network with other Take Pride partners - cities, corporations and more - who help you host top quality projects.
Merchandise Access to special Take Pride School merchandise, free of charge, such as T-shirts, bookmarks and pencils.
Take Pride in America Schools
- Academy of Richmond County Comprehensive High School, Augusta, GA
- Audubon Elementary School, Merritt Island, FL
- Balaton Public School Balaton, MN
- Batesburg-Leesville Elementary School Batesburg-Leesville, SC
- Beatrice High School, Beatrice, NE
- Beatrice Middle School in Beatrice, NE
- Berkley Charter School Auburndale, FL
- Big Walnut Elementary School Sunbury, OH
- Carencro High School, Lafayette, LA
- Carmel River School Carmel, CA
- CB Greer Elementary School Brunswick, GA
- Charles R. Drew Middle School, Lincoln, AL
- Christopher Columbus Middle School, Clifton, NJ
- Classical Academy Charter School, Clifton, NJ
- Community Schoolhouse, Salem, OR
- Cookeville High School, Cookeville, TN
- Cornerstone High School Galena, KS
- Crook County High School Rotational Work Crew, Prineville, OR
- Deer Creek Elementary School in Edmund, OK
- Dolores Huerta Elementary School, Stockton, CA
- Dowling Catholic High School, West Des Moines, Iowa
- Dr. William Bailey Middle School, Las Vegas, NV
- East Clinton Elementary School, Huntsville, AL
- Epiphany Cathedral School Venice, FL
- Eugenio Maria de Hostos High School Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
- Fremont Middle School Roseburg, OR
- Glendale High School, Glendale, OR
- Grafton Middle School, Yorktown, VA
- Joseph Lane Middle School, Roseburg, OR
- Hahira Middle School Hahira, GA
- Hampstead Elementary School, Hampstead, MD
- Hayden Elementary School, Hayden, Indiana
- Holy Trinity Episcopal School, Houston, Texas
- Hope-Page Elementary School, Hope, ND
- Horizons Lake Educational Center, Camdenton, MO
- Houck Middle School, Salem, OR
- Hyattsville Elementary School, Hyattsville, MD
- Kosciuszko Middle School, Milwaukee, WI
- La Entrada Middle School, Menlo Park, CA
- Manuel Public School, Manuel, ND
- McDonald Green Elementary School Lancaster, SC
- Menlo-Atherton High School, Atherton, CA
- Montpelier Public School, Montpelier, North Dakota
- Mount Vernon elementary School, Yorktown, VA
- N.P. Moss Middle School Lafayette, LA
- Newburg United School, Newburg, ND
- North Central School, Rogers, North Dakota
- Oconomowoc Middle School Oconomowoc, WI
- Ottawa Hills High School Grand Rapids, Michigan
- P.S. 111 Seton Falls School, Bronx, NY
- Palm Bay Elementary Palm Bay, FL
- Pershing Elementary School Orlando, FL
- Phoenix School, Roseburg, Oregon
- Pi Beta Phi Elementary School, Gatlinburg, TN
- Pinehurst Elementary School, Pinehurst, NC
- Pittsburg CBI at Pittsburg Adult Education
- Polaris K-12, Anchorage, AK
- Ponderosa Elementary School, Post Falls, ID
- Prairie View Elementary School, Post Falls, ID
- Princess Anne High School, Virginia Beach, VA
- Rees Elementary, Spanish Fork, UT
- Riddle Education Center Riddle, OR
- Rock Springs High School in Green River, WY
- Sacred Heart School, Clifton, NJ
- Sage Creek Elementary School, Springville, Utah
- Saint Clare School, Clifton, NJ
- School #1, Clifton, NJ
- School #2, Clifton, NJ
- School #3, Clifton, NJ
- School #4, Clifton, NJ
- School #5, Clifton, NJ
- School #8, Clifton, NJ
- School #9, Clifton, NJ
- School #11, Clifton, NJ
- School #12, Clifton, NJ
- School #13, Clifton, NJ
- School #14, Clifton, NJ
- School #15, Clifton, NJ
- School #16, Clifton, NJ
- School #17, Clifton, NJ
- Scott Middle School, Scott, LA
- Southside High School Elmira, NY
- St. Agnes Academy/St. Dominic School Memphis, TN
- St. Andrew the Apostle School, Clifton, NJ
- St. Brendan School, Clifton, NJ
- St. Philip's School, Clifton, NJ
- Tuckahoe Elementary School, Arlington, VA
- Uptown School Complex, Atlantic City, NJ
- Utica Elementary School Utica, KY
- Walker Memorial Academy Avon Park, FL
- Wayne Elementary School Corydon, IA
- West Geauga Middle School, Chesterland, OH
- Wing Public School, Wing, ND
- Woodman School Lolo, MT
- Woodrow Wilson Middle School, Clifton, NJ
- Yosemite National Park Valley School, Yosemite, CA
