St. Paul Lutheran School was one of two schools in Florida to receive the U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Award. The students, staff and families exhibited environmental awareness in student lessons and numerous student-led initiatives to make the campus "green." Fourth graders lead the way through weekly recycling efforts, including Terracycle, which involves recycling packaging from food products. A campus wide recycling effort in the fall kept more than 11,000 pounds of materials out of landfills.  Students are raising money from their recycling efforts to stock the school's ponds to help encourage more wading birds to return to campus.