LANDS and WATERS
A not-for-profit organization devoted to
watershed protection and education
Stuart Hopson Middle School
Stuart Hobson Middle School is a public school for 400 5th to 8th graders and is the middle school campus for the Capitol Hill Cluster School in the District of Columbia. Approximately 85% of the students are African American, 10% are White, and 3% are Hispanic. Thirty-nine percent of the students are considered economically disadvantaged.
This school is committed to improving its school grounds, and is participating in the Capitol Hill Green Schools Initiative. In the spring of 2009, Lands and Waters joined Living Classrooms of the National Capitol Region and the school to initiate the school’s first major schoolyard greening project, the installation of the first phase of the Nancy Cunningham Memorial and Native Plant Garden on the northeast side of the school building. Additional phases will begin 2010 summer.
Above: Student planning with
Jeanette Stewart on planning day.
Above left: Students creating poster for garden.
Above right: Created poster.
Above left: Students removing turf
grass before planting Above right: Educational activity
- Erosion in a jar.