About CHPS

The Collaborative for High Performance Schools believes kids learn better in schools with good lighting, clean air, and comfortable classrooms. That’s why CHPS work with schools and experts to make changes to ensure every child has the best possible learning environment with the least impact on the planet.

Accomplishments
To date, over eighty schools have been built using CHPS' high performance school standards, which means more kids have access to health, environmentally friendly, safe school buildings. Thirteen states have embraced CHPS and created a state-specific building standard adapted specifically for their climate and local building codes. Thousands of professionals have attended our trainings and online webinars. Hundreds of high performance, healthy, green products are available in our products database and more are added every day. And this is just the beginning.

Goals
CHPS helps facilitate and inspire change in our educational system. The goals of CHPS are to:

• Protect student and staff health and enhance the learning environment
• Conserve energy, water, and other resources on school campuses
• Reduce waste, pollution, and environmental degradation at school sites
• Raise awareness of the impact and advantages of high performance schools
• Provide experts with better tools to design, construct and operate high performance schools
• Engage students in the process of making their school buildings better
• Contribute to the green school movement by making high performance school strategies, products and services more common and accessible to schools everywhere

The Collaborative for High Performance Schools a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.