Environmental Charter School Pittsburgh

We’d like to extend a huge thank you to all of the families who came out to learn more about ECS and visit our High School at our ECS Fly By this week! It was a beautiful day for our faculty and staff to meet prospective and current families whose students will be moving up to high school in the Fall. We can’t wait for next year at ECSHS!

Keep the love of biking rolling all summer long! Students entering grades 6-12 are invited to join the ECS Mountain Bike team for it’s first season of racing, adventure rides, fun rides, trail stewardship projects, and more. Practices begin as early as July, so don’t wait- sign up soon! (link to sign up form in comments)

Want to “Try-It Out” First?
Come out on June 13 from 12:00–1:30 PM at Reynolds Street Park (near the lawn bowling green). Coaches will be available to answer any questions!

Email Laura at [email protected] for more information.

Trout Release Day!
As part of their year-long study of watersheds, our fifth graders raise Rainbow Trout through the PA Trout in the Classroom program. Students learn about water quality and the trout life cycle while caring for the fish as they grow from eggs to fingerlings. Students test the water weekly to monitor the chemical balance, feed the fish and help clean the tank. In May the Trout Team traveled to our approved stream to release 101 fingerlings into the wild!

🐾 Our 5th Grade Kindness Crew recently completed a meaningful community service project in partnership with to support cats and dogs in need!

Our students took the lead by creating presentations and visiting classrooms to encourage donations from their school community. They also helped prepare adoption folders and made cozy blankets for rescue animals awaiting their forever homes.

To wrap up the project, students visited the Paws Across Pittsburgh warehouse to deliver the collected donations and lend a helping hand organizing food, toys, and blankets. Through their hard work, compassion, and teamwork, they made a real difference for local animals and the people who care for them.

Thank you to Paws Across Pittsburgh for this meaningful partnership and experience for our students.

As part of their Capstone, a group of 8th grade students worked with our food services team to create a ‘compliant’ school meal that they then served for lunch! The group had to consider nutritional metrics as well as cost. They developed a chicken, bacon wrap, veggie wrap that was a hit among their fellow students!

We’d like to extend a huge thank you to all of our ECS parent and community volunteers who joined us for our Volunteer Thank You Breakfast last week!
This breakfast is a very small demonstration of our gratitude for our volunteers and all they have done to support our students and our greater ECS community throughout the school year. We could not do this without you!

A little rain (all 3 mornings!) couldn’t stop us from celebrating Walk, Bike and Roll to School days at ECS high, middle and intermediate schools this year!
We celebrated our District’s commitment to active and sustainable transportation with raffles, smoothies and more! We are so proud of all of our students and families who show their commitment to sustainable modes of transportation every day (including roller skates)!
Huge thanks to BikeECS for coordinating these events and all of the incredible biking programming we are so lucky to have at ECS.

Our 9th graders had an incredible Aqua Lab Adventure at at Moraine State Park last week!

Watch this great video from their trip - they learned how to sample for microplastics, explore the hidden impacts of pollution, and build a deeper, more meaningful connection to the waterways around them. Through paddleboarding, hands-on science, and outdoor exploration, students become both researchers and stewards of their local environment.

Led by the Watersmith Guild, Aqua Lab Adventures blends environmental education, adventure, and storytelling to empower the next generation of changemakers—one waterway at a time.
Learn more: www.watersmithguild.org

Aqua Lab with the Environmental Charter School of Pittsburgh Step onto the water with students from Environmental Charter School...

We LOVED participating in the Disney Musical Student Share Celebration at the Benedum Center downtown! Our students did a FABULOUS job and our musical team is so proud of them for such a successful musical season.