Canandaigua City School District

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Location
Canandaigua City School District
143 North Pearl St. Canandaigua, New York, 14424 USA
Information
School district	Canandaigua City School District
Superintendent	Mr. Donald Raw
Enrollment	4120
Faculty	323
School type	Public high school
Grades	K-12
Motto	Committed to Excellence
Mascot	Braves
Color(s)	Cherry and grey
Established	1793
Homepage	www.canandaiguaschools.org

The Canandaigua City District is a public school district in New York State that serves approximately 4100 students in the city of Canandaigua and the town of Canandaigua and portions of the towns of Bristol, Farmington, East Bloomfield, Gorham, Hopewell and South Bristol in Ontario County, with an operating budget of $57 million (~$11,500 per student).

The student-teacher ratio is 13:1(elementary), 12-13:1(middle-high school).^[1]

The District motto is "Committed to Excellence".

Donald Raw, Jr. is the Superintendent of Schools.

1 Board of Education
2 Schools
3 Bird's Eye Images
4 Performance
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Board of Education

The Board of Education (BOE) consists of 9 members who serve rotating 5-year terms. Elections are held each May for board members and to vote on the School District Budget.

Current board members (July 2007^[2]^[3]) are:

Tarry Shipley - President
Jeanie Grimm - Vice-President
Norma Barton
Cheryl Anne Brewer
Regina (Jeannie) Kesel
Frieda O'Hanlon
John A. Polimeni
Donna Cotter
Joseph Delforte Jr.

[edit] Schools

All of the District's schools have been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, making its K-12 program one of the few such fully accredited programs in New York State.

[edit] Elementary schools

Canandaigua Primary School (K-2)
Canandaigua Elementary School (3-5)

[edit] Middle school

Canandaigua Middle School (6-8)

[edit] High school

Canandaigua Academy (9-12)

[edit] Bird's Eye Images

[edit] Performance

The American School Board Journal has named the District a "Magna Award" winner five times, most recently in 2006.

The Academy’s library website was named a 2003 "International Best of the Web" site for large high schools. Students have access to each school's library from home via web site, a 2003 NYSPRA "Award of Excellence" web site.

The United States Department of Education awarded its highest honor, the Blue Ribbon School of Excellence Award, to Canandaigua schools in 1986 and 1996.

As of February 2002, the school earned the designation of "International Baccalaureate World School," offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme.^[4] 17 graduates received the diploma in 2007.^[5]

In November 2007, a first-grade class at Canandaigua Primary School won a national prize for a video they created that encourages girls to pursue technology careers. They were selected first from 85 schools in the United States, Australia and New Zealand.^[6]