The Compass School in Kingston has been named a 2013 Green Ribbon school by the U.S. Department of Education for its environmental efforts.

Sustainability practices include packing no-waste lunches, regular silverware, and reusable water bottles.  Documents are printed on both sides of paper and scrap paper is used for math and art, and shredded for use as bedding in worm compost bins and the chicken coop.  Students constructed a bin for Compass families to use for recycling supermarket plastic bags, and another bin is used to collect and send recyclable materials to Terracycle.  In art and music students make instruments and sculptures from natural and recycled materials.  According to parents, this concern for good sustainability practices has carried over into home practices.