Regional School District NO. 1

Regional School District NO. 1, doing business as North Canaan Elementary School, is a Connecticut public school district that receives federal education and nutrition grants as a prime recipient from the Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education and as a sub-recipient from the Connecticut Department of Education under U.S. Department of Agriculture child nutrition and food assistance programs.

North Canaan Elementary School is a child entity within Regional School District NO. 1 (parent headquarters Falls Village, Connecticut) and operates as a U.S. local government school district. The entity does not hold federal contracts and does not sit on any federal contract vehicles. Federal engagement is exclusively grant-based, split between prime grant awards (47% of recent federal activity) and sub-recipient allocations (53%). The district has received thirty total federal awards since 2007, with $1.4 million in combined obligations across all awards, and serves three distinct federal agencies.

The district's prime-grant footprint centers on the Small, Rural School Achievement Program (Office of Elementary and Secondary Education). North Canaan Elementary has received formula grants under this program on an annual cycle — awards in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026, each running from July through September thirty months later. The 2026 award runs through September 30, 2027, and the 2025 award through September 30, 2026.

The sub-recipient footprint is concentrated in child nutrition and food assistance. The Connecticut Department of Education holds the prime grant awards and allocates funds to North Canaan Elementary under the Child Nutrition Program Block Consolidated. Sub-awards under this program date from 2022 through 2026 (most recent August 17, 2026). Additional sub-recipient work includes ARP ESSER funding for the Small Town Right to Read literacy initiative (awarded November 27, 2023), SNAP State and Local PEBT emergency assistance (October 1, 2022), and SCA Local Food for Schools nutrition support (July 31, 2022 and January 1, 2022).

Activity has concentrated in the past two years, with six awards in 2026 alone against a three-year low of one award in 2025. Only one award (the Small, Rural School Achievement Program award ending September 30, 2025) reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. The district's federal footprint is elementary and secondary education services and school meal nutrition support, routed through established state and federal education-grant pathways rather than open competitive procurement.