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New Canaan School District

New Canaan, Connecticut · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

4,060
Students enrolled
5
Public schools
357
Classroom teachers (FTE)
11.4:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 54
  • Kindergarten 272
  • Grade 1 286
  • Grade 2 310
  • Grade 3 293
  • Grade 4 299
  • Grade 5 336
  • Grade 6 290
  • Grade 7 304
  • Grade 8 343
  • Grade 9 324
  • Grade 10 303
  • Grade 11 313
  • Grade 12 333

By race/ethnicity

  • White 79%
  • Asian 7%
  • Hispanic/Latino 7%
  • Two or more races 5%
  • Black or African American 1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%
  • Race not reported <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Spending and revenue

$29,555 spent per student on day-to-day operations Connecticut median: $24,991 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $17,089
  • Support services $11,877
  • Other (food service, etc.) $589

Where the money comes from

  • Local 84%
  • State 14%
  • Federal 1%

Total revenue $131.2 milliontotal spending $130.0 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Suburb: Large

Total staff (FTE)

827

District office

220 Elm Street, New Canaan CT 06840

County

Fairfield County

Official website

NCES District ID

902700

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About New Canaan School District

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

Welcome to the New Canaan Public Schools. We are delighted that you are considering our District for the education of your child, one of the most important decisions that a parent can make during the course of his or her lifetime. We are immensely proud of our students, our teachers and our administrators, and rightly so, as our District has achieved a high standard of excellence through a combination of industriousness and innovation, a commitment to building character, and good old-fashioned hard work. Whether in the classroom, on the stage or the playing fields, or in the community, the results have borne considerable fruit.
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