Canaan Elementary School

As a reasonably sized primary school in Canaan, New Hampshire, Canaan Elementary School works with 236 students from grades pre-K through 4, run under Mascoma Valley Regional School District.

Mascoma Valley Regional School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,026 students; Canaan Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Canaan Elementary School lists that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 8% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Grafton County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Canaan Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.0%, the actual is 49.5%, a residual of +3.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Grafton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $88,261 per year, roughly 47% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Grafton County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,161 students), of which Canaan Elementary School is one.

Mascoma Valley Regional High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Canaan Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Canaan Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 51.8%.

Canaan Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 18%: 288 students in 2018 compared to 236 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 95% to 88%.

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