The Certification program provides benchmarks and a scoring system for schools wishing to assess their environmental performance in a limited number of areas. The point system establishes Bronze, Silver and Gold levels of EcoSchools.

download Guide to Online Certification check for revised criteria and a new Guide in Fall 2010.

téléchargement Guide de la certification en ligne
If you are a French language school and are planning to submit a certification application, please contact us at info (at) ontarioecoschools.org.

Please note that certification criteria are revised every year.

See our certification forms section for additional certification resources.

Certification tipsheet
If you’ve been wondering how to write up your school’s activities or unsure about meeting the certification criteria this tipsheet is for you. In this tipsheet we have highlighted some of the questions new to certification this year with examples of how to meet the criteria.

Private schools — for important information about 2009-2010 certification, please click here.