Emilie Kushner
Senior Editor
College Prowler is a college search site run by students, for students. It is the quintessential insider guide to any college and high school seniors swear by it.
New Canaan High School is among one of the top rated public schools in the country. But what do the students think? In a college prowler-esque evaluation survey of New Canaan High School, the Courant, found out.
A Academics B Guys
A Athletics B+ Health & Safety
B+ Campus Dining B Local Atmosphere
B Campus Strictness B Nightlife
C Computers A- Off-Campus Dining
D- Diversity C+ Parking
C Drug Safety B Transportation
B+ Facilities B Weather
A- Girls
A Academics
The New Canaan Public Schools system is considered to be one of the best in Connecticut. It has also gained national recognition for its high performance; for example, a recent edition of Forbes magazine rated New Canaan as the third-ranked school district in the United States.*
People are crazy about their grades.
Great teachers.
Teachers expect a lot out of you, yet the knowledge is rewarding. Great opportunities to develop relationships with.
Very competitive.
When going to an Ivy League school is a regular thing each year.
A Athletics
New Canaan High School is part of the FCIAC athletic conference. New Canaan football has also met recent success lately. The varsity team has won the past four class MM state championships, and has nineteen in total. They also lay claim to seven FCIAC Championships and twelve Turkey Bowl Championships.*
NCLAX!
A lot of school spirit.
#1.
Great coaches (for the most part) and great competition and TONS of spirit.
Go to the Gym and look up at the banners.
B+ Campus Dining
The New Canaan High School Food Service offers a wide variety of healthy options. They have a salad bar, make sandwiches and wraps, and even serve breakfast ranging from the beloved bacon-egg-and-cheese’s to muffins.
Eat a hot lunch any day of the week and try to feel okay with yourself.
EATOFF!
No variety.
Students underestimate the quality of our school food. Do you think many other schools have their own wrap, sandwich and salad bars with fresh makings? Probably not many. However the food is questionably expensive.
Really good cookies.
B Campus Strictness
NCHS has an open campus allowing upperclassmen to leave campus anytime during the day. As of last year students need a pass to get off-campus, and juniors are not allowed off during lunch time.
Helen is a force to be reckoned with.
The administration wouldn’t allow the eat off and they are strict about having passes to go off campus.
Compared to most schools, our off campus policy is very understandable. Just a pain in the you know what to get these passes and student ID’s squared away.
With the drug dogs I don’t know how much farther they could be up our butt.
C Computers
NCHS has two computer labs in the library, as well as rows of computers for students to use. The photography, film, and journalism rooms are stocked with brand new Mac desktops.
Buy macs already.
Horrible bandwidth.
Really slow.
Old.
Have you ever tried to log on to a cow?!
They never work when you actually want them to. They take forever to load.
Stop spending so much money on library books that no one uses and buy faster computers.
Most of the time you have to try two or three times before it logs on and works.
Worst things in the entire world.
The new computers run well, would want macs but our Tech team can build them I guess…
Stop buying iTouches and get computers that actually work.
D- Diversity
As of the census of 2000 the racial makeup of the town was 95.27% White, 1.04% African American, 0.04% Native American, 2.29% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.38% from other races, and 0.98% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.74% of the population.*
There are other races from here?
We’re very WASP-y.
I can count the number of people of color on one hand.
Few Asians, virtually no black people, mostly white.
C Drug Safety
Officer Kim took the place of Officer Bentley as the resource officer at NCHS. The resource officers hope to build better relationships with the students.
All of our drugs are safe from the police.
Nope.
Let it be.
Desperate need for them Zans.
We had a drug dog.
It’s just pot, get over it.
You have to be one smart son of a b*tch to evade those drug dogs.
B+ Facilities
The school recently completed a multi-year, $60+ million dollar renovation.*
Bathrooms are easy and accessible with three bathrooms in every hallway.
Bathrooms are gross.
The bathrooms… ew.
Bathrooms are nasty.
It took a year for one girl’s bathroom to get paper towels but the automatic flushers rock!
Bathrooms are sometimes dirty and usually smell really gross.
Good except for maybe the bathrooms…
It looks like a prison and it’s relatively clean except for the fact that people in our schools don’t pick up their trash.
A- Girls
Catty and well dressed, these girls are surprisingly fun and intelligent!
Would’ve been a regular B, but yoga pants boosted the grade curve.
We look good.
Prettiest and skinniest girls out there.
“You can’t sit with us!!!!!”
B Guys
New Canaan boys are known for their preppy good looks and athleticism. There is an abundance of both vineyard vines belts and narcissism.
Immature and short.
B+ Health & Safety
New Canaan is a very safe town. The High School is equipped with security cameras and has an officer on duty. School violence is infrequent.
There are so many cameras in this school I feel like I’m on the Real World.
Health is a joke.
We have a cop at the school but things can still happen.
Sapienza taught us well.
Two police officers around might be one too many.
No sex ed class?
The amount of GIRLS I’ve seen not wash their hands….let alone boys.
B Local Atmosphere
New Canaan is a town of about 20,000. It is the quintessential quaint town, but with the close-knitness comes a lack of privacy. It is said that everyone knows everybody’s business.
Very Bad.
The town loves us.
Town roolz!
Welcoming.
Right next to town so it is easy to go off and get food. If your’rebored you go to the lounge or library.
Extremely competitive with grades, classes and even extra curriculars. Social groups very obvious and not very overlapping.
Tons of cops in town everywhere and people are generally kind of unfriendly.
New Canaan is nice.
B Nightlife
New Canaan has one of the highest rates of underage drinking.
Outback teen center… nuff said.
Project R.
Bumpin’.
If anything you just drive to Mobil if anything is happening.
Every once in a while there will be that one big party that you see pretty much every person from your grade there (ones you thought had left for boarding school freshman year were even there). Except exclusivity of parties is very high and hard to get into.
Let’s get wasted and post about it all over Facebook.
A- Off-Campus Dining
New Canaan is known for it delicious, yet pricey food options. To keep with the small-town feel, there are only a few chain restaurants in New Canaan – Starbucks, Subway, Baskin Robbins.
TONYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY’SSS!!!!!!
Whenever we’re allowed off… Which is never…
Tony’s is all you ever need.
Delicious especially Tony’s and Club Sandwich.
Delicious yet expensive.
C+ Parking
Only upperclassmen with parking passes are permitted to park on campus. There is a junior lot, senior lot, band land, jock lot, faculty parking and visitor parking. Part of the Waveny property has become the notorious ‘dirt lot’ for students with out passes willing to walk quite a bit.
Sucks if you’re not a senior.
Spots in the senior lot run out easily.
Juniors gtfo.
Not enough.
It’s called the senior lot for a reason.
It’d be okay if the person hadn’t placed a major road in between the parking lot and the school where people could easily be killed by the terrible driving skills of 16 year olds with Range Rovers.
B Transportation
New Canaan is served by the Meritt Parkway and Metro-North Railroad. The High School is inconveniently located by the main road South Ave.
I live two miles from school and it takes me 20 minutes to get home.
No public transportation except cabs.
Everyone has their own car, right?
My bus driver was a gem.
B Weather
New Canaan, CT has a humid continental climate and experiences four seasons. In the past years Hurricane’s Irene and Sandy as well as countless Nor’easter’s have plagued the east coast.
Decent.
Four Seasons.
All four seasons and it’s beautiful most of the year, and if you’re a complainer about the cold, move south.
*Wikipedia
