Canaan, New Hampshire - Education
Canaan Schools are part of the Mascoma Valley Regional School District.
Canaan Elementary School

PO Box 18
Canaan, NH 03741-0018
Tel: (603) 523-4312

  • Students showcase is a monthly assembly in which two students from each classroom are honored for special accomplishments. Parents are individually called and personally invited to attend. 100% participation by parents has in 1999-2000.
  • The school was adopted by a local business partner "ValleyNet". This business presented the school with a $5,000 grant to be used to improve our technology. They also gave the school 10 computer systems and are providing technical support and training.
  • The school received a "National Gardening Grant Award" for grounds beautification.
Indian River School

RR 1 Box 169
West Canaan, NH 03741-9763
Tel: 603-632-4357
E-mail: Indian.River.School@valley.net

  • NH Scholastic Art Awards - 15 participants 7 received awards
  • Odyssey of the Mind - 4 participating Teams 1 team to State Competition

Mascoma Valley Regional High

RR 1 Box 168A
West Canaan, NH 03741-9736
Tel: 603-632-4308

  • State representatives to Olympics of the Mind/ Destination Imagination world competition
  • High School received full accreditation in March of 2000 through hard work and dedication from the staff & administration.
  • Runners- up Class M Girls Basketball
  • Emphasis on diversity and tolerance
  • Added Distance Learning Courses
Nearby Private Schools, Colleges, Universities, Technical & Community Colleges

Dartmouth College

Hanover, NH 03755
Tel: (603) 646-1110
http://www.dartmouth.edu

Dartmouth College (one of the Ivies and the ninth oldest college in the nation), Dartmouth is a private, co-educational, four year liberal arts college, founded by the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock in 1769. The institution sits on a 200 acre main campus immediately adjacent to Hanover's downtown business district in the southwestern corner of the township. Dartmouth's undergraduate college is complemented by seventeen graduate programs in the arts and sciences and professional schools including the Tuck School of Business Administration, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Dartmouth Medical School. Dartmouth, with over 4,200 undergraduate and 1200 graduate students, is one of the most prestigious colleges in the nation. While Dartmouth emphasizes the traditions of a small college, the institution is recognized as a research university. The college employs over 3,000 faculty, administrators and staff members.

Cultural and academic activities are centered at Dartmouth's Hopkins Center for the performing arts and the Hood Museum of Art. Year round, there are conferences and lecture series including special events at the graduate schools and The Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences. Several communities have local theater groups and art exhibits and galleries including the AVA Gallery in Lebanon.

Lebanon College

1 Court Street, Suite 200
Lebanon, NH 03766
Tel: 603-448-2445
Toll-free: 888-LEB-COLL
http://www.lebanoncollege.edu

Lebanon College was established as a non-profit educational institution in 1956 to provide courses and programs to meet the needs of the people, regardless of age or background, in and around the Upper Valley area of New Hampshire and Vermont.

Lebanon College's programs and courses are designed to benefit the entire community, ensure economic growth, broaden employment opportunities, and contribute toward critical thought, and creative expression in all aspects of society.

Located in the center of the "Twin States" of New Hampshire and Vermont, Lebanon College's administrative offices, computer labs, and classrooms are in the Historic District of downtown Lebanon, New Hampshire, overlooking the pedestrian mall of the city. The College also offers courses and programs at various schools, galleries, and museums outside the immediate area.

Colby - Sawyer College

100 Main Street
New London, NH 03257
Tel: (603) 526-3000
http://www.colby-sawyer.edu

Colby-Sawyer College, founded as a coeducational academy in 1837 and engaged in higher education since 1928, is an independent, coeducational, residential, undergraduate college that strives to lead in offering co-equal education to women and men. The college provides programs of study which innovatively integrate liberal arts and sciences with professional preparation. Through all of its programs, the college encourages students of varied backgrounds and abilities to realize their full intellectual and personal potential so they may gain understanding about themselves, others, and the forces shaping our rapidly changing and pluralistic world.

Claremont Technical College

1 College Drive
Claremont, NH 03743
Tel: (603) 542-7744
Toll Free: (800) 837-0658 in New Hampshire and Vermont
Fax: (603) 543-1844
http://www.claremont.tec.nh.us/

The College promotes the pursuit of knowledge as it unfolds and the communication of that knowledge to others. Both faculty and students are encouraged to question assumptions, examine data, to be guided by evidence, to teach what they know, to be both teacher and learners.


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