At $38,676 per pupil, Canaan School District ranks #4 of 191 Connecticut districts by per-pupil spending (Connecticut districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Canaan School District operates 1 public schools serving 72 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Connecticut. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Northwest Hills Planning Region.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $38,676 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 20 of 191 Connecticut districts by per-pupil spending. See how Connecticut compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 81.6% local, 17.5% state, and 0.9% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 70:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 18.6% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 87.1% White, 5.7% Hispanic or Latino, 1.4% Asian across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Lee H. Kellogg School, enrolling 70 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Lee H. Kellogg School accounts for 97.2% of all Canaan School District student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Canaan School District a distant remainder — means Canaan School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Canaan School District student-counselor ratio is 70:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Canaan School District chronic absenteeism rate is 18.6% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Canaan School District is typically wider than the Canaan School District-aggregate figure suggests.