Housatonic Valley Regional High School

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Housatonic Valley Regional High School is a regional high school in the village of Falls Village in the town of Canaan, Connecticut in Litchfield County. The school currently has a student population of approximately 421 in grades 9 to 12. It serves six towns: Sharon, Kent, North Canaan, Canaan , Salisbury, and Cornwall, including the unincorporated villages within those towns. It was established in 1939 as a result of a special act of the Connecticut General Assembly in 1937. It is the first regional high school in New England.HistoryPrior to the opening of Housatonic Valley Regional High School, four of the six towns it currently serves each had its own high school. In the 1920s, William Teague, the state's rural supervisor of schools, suggested that Connecticut's sprawling Northwest Corner consolidate its public schools. In 1937, the Connecticut General Assembly authorized the formation of the first regional school district in the state (hence the name of the new district, "Regional School District Number One"). The newly formed school board purchased the 75acre former Lorch farm at the junction of the Salmon Kill and the Housatonic River near the Canaan-Salisbury town line for $8,000. The school was subsequently constructed on that site, opening in the fall of 1939.