Canaan Schools
Canaan · VT · Canaan School District · Public · K-12 combined
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Canaan High School CTE Program → North Country Union High School → North Country Career Center → Burke Mountain Academy → East Burke School → Lake Region Union High School → Lyndon Institute → Arlington Schhool (The) →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 1 calculus classes
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 25% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 10% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 69% (Bottom 14% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Canaan Schools compares for families
What families should know about Canaan Schools.
- ▸ LocallyVT students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Canaan High School CTE Program, North Country Union High School, North Country Career Center and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Limited — narrow advanced curriculum
Bottom 25% of US high schools
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 10% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 14% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +1.1%/year, projecting from 2024's 184 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canaan High School CTE Program Canaan |
Public | 0.0 | — | — |
| North Country Union High School Newport |
Public | 32.7 | 678 | -1.9% |
| North Country Career Center Newport |
Public | 32.7 | — | — |
| Burke Mountain Academy East Burke |
Private | 33.2 | 60 | +5.3% |
| East Burke School East Burke |
Private | 34.4 | 7 | — |
| Lake Region Union High School Orleans |
Public | 36.5 | 353 | -4.1% |
| Lyndon Institute Lyndon Center |
Private | 39.3 | 432 | -25.9% |
| Arlington Schhool (The) Saint Johnsbury |
Private | 45.6 | 44 | — |