Residents Push Back on Town Council’s Proposed $300,000 Reduction to BOE Spending Plan

New Canaan residents took to the podium on Tuesday night to address the town’s legislative body, calling for its members to fully fund the Board of Education’s proposed spending plan for next fiscal year. 

Saying the New Canaan Public Schools team led by Superintendent of Schools Dr. Bryan Luizzi has a solid track record of responsible spending as well as academic excellence, parents, students and teacher representatives asked that the Town Council—the final municipal funding body to review and approve the fiscal year 2026 budget—approve a proposed Board of Ed operating budget of about $113.9 million. The figure represents a 4.4% increase over current spending. 

Those addressing the Town Council during a final public hearing on the budget asked that the elected body reject a proposed reduction of $300,000 to the Board of Ed’s spending request. In many cases, they pointed to two additional positions—an elementary school classroom coach and high school math interventionist—that district officials have said likely would be eliminated from next year’s plans if such a reduction went through. One NCPS parent and professional educator, Palmer Metz, told the Town Council that she and her family “moved here for the schools.”

“I’ve always had full faith in the schools,” Metz said during the meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference. “Dr. Luizzi has proven, to my mind, that the administration and the Board of Education developed a budget that is both fiscally sound and meets the needs of my children and their classmates.

School District Starts Earlier-Than-Usual Hiring Process for 2025-26 Academic Year

New Canaan Public Schools started earlier than usual this year in seeking to hire for vacancies anticipated for next academic year, officials say. Several of the positions—they include an art teacher, school counselor, special education teacher, psychologist and social studies teacher specializing in higher-level economics at New Canaan High School, grade five teacher and two French positions at Saxe Middle School, preschool and kindergarten teacher at West School and a district-wide psychologist— “are in process,” according to Darlene Pianka, the district’s human resources director. “Many of the positions that I just reviewed will be selecting a finalist within the next two weeks,” Pianka told members of the Board of Education at their regular meeting, held March 17 in the Wagner Room at NCHS and via videoconference. She added: “This process is a bit earlier this year, just so that you’re aware in the interest of, from our perspective, securing the best candidates in what now, depending on the position, could be a really shallow pool. So we thought we’d get started earlier.

New Canaan High School Q2 Honors, High Honors

What follows are the Honor and High Honor Rolls for New Canaan High School students in the second quarter of the 2024-25 academic year, provided by district officials. Grade 12 High Honors

Amanda Aalto    
William Arnold    
Finlay Arrix    
Gabriel Babayev    
Grace Baker    
Pia Bausman    
Ciara Bell    
Alexander Besaw    
Elizabeth Besgen    
Benjamin Bognon    
Ryan Boulanger    
Cecily Bradley    
Andrew Brandt    
Annabelle Bristol    
Cameron Britz    
Charlotte Campbell    
Alexander Cannon    
Chloe Chan    
Arnav Chaudhary    
Emma Chavez    
Elizabeth Cheng    
Vihaan Choksi    
Everett Collin    
Jaelin Companik    
Cassandra Cronk    
Addison Crowley    
Santino Crudele-Sands    
Gianluca D’Andrea    
Jacqueline Doherty    
Jake Donohue    
Alexander Etergino    
Katherine Evans    
Sophie Evseev    
Page Fields    
Bianca Formoso    
Riley Fortmann    
Damaris Freire    
John Frieders    
Aidan Frisch    
Victoria Fromzel    
Sofia Fuentes Jimenez    
Chrysoula Gabriel    
Angelina Gao    
Alessandra Gass    
Chloe George    
Anne Gilliam    
Peyton Graetz    
Bennett Gropper    
Tianze Guan    
Samantha Haley    
Preston Hanrattie    
Alice Hanson    
Brendon Harmon    
Grant Harvey    
Ronan Hillmann    
Henry Hladick    
Lily Hole    
Eric Huang    
Zoey Hull    
Alexander Ivanov    
Erik Johnson    
Benjamin Kim    
Atma Krishnan    
Katherine Kupchak    
Henry Lapin    
Charlotte Lewis    
Jonathan Robert Lewis    
Bryce Lyden    
Megan Lynch    
Brandon Ma   
Isabella Madrid    
Chase Maggio    
Andrew Mank    
Daisy Marasciullo    
Olivia Marotta    
Margaret Marshall    
Sarah Marshall    
Emilia Martinez    
Sydney Mashia    
Christopher Masiuk    
Mia Mastronardi    
Piper Maxey    
Henry Mayock    
Connor Mazza    
Kathleen McDonough    
Niyanna McNeil    
Julia McPhillips    
Amy Meng    
William Merritt    
Lilly Messina    
Samuel Mettler    
Julia Michelini    
Olivia Michelini    
Leo Mikkola-Patel    
Kaisa Milligan    
Nicholas Mohamad    
Olivia Mohr    
Andrew Moor    
Charlotte Moor    
Jacqueline Mulle    
Andrew Muller    
Pippa Murray    
Serena O’Connor    
Danielle O’Malley    
Timothy Orelup    
Dylan Pabon    
Spencer Paine    
Claire Parelli    
Mason Park    
Katherine Patterson    
Ava Pepe    
Melissa Phillips    
Thomas Pisant    
Luke Pittaro    
Samantha Plosker    
Radea Raleva    
Maria Riccardelli    
Lyndee Rigby    
Tessa Riley    
Susanna Rittenberry    
Jacob Robertson    
Lawrence Robinson    
Ryan Ross    
Maxwell Sanseverino    
Pranav Sant    
Zachary Santiago    
Sebastian Saridakis    
Isabella Sarracino    
Ivy Saunders    
Celina Savage    
Tahlia Scherer    
Camryn Schneberger    
William Sexton    
Sajan Shah    
Rohan Shenoy    
Emily Shiff    
Siddhi Singhania    
Mattie Sirois    
Tedrah Smedley    
Juliet Sorensen    
Sophia Staron    
Tucker Stevens   
Riley Stewart    
William Sullivan    
Lana Suvar    
Henry Tate    
Adeliese Tauber    
Aidan Taylor    
Simon Tchakarov    
Isabella Temple    
Anna Truslow    
Adelaide Tuff    
Madeline Tully    
Aditya Tyagi    
Roma Wadhwani    
Norman Walker    
Sophie Walther    
Samuel Wang    
Penelope Werner    
Charles West    
Chloe Wildman    
Lola Wildman    
Lucas Williams    
Mason Williams    
Johann Wrede    
Brooks Wunderlich    
Daniel Yoo    
Alexander Yuan    
Anna Zussman    
Zakary Zuwiyya   

Grade 11 High Honors

Luke Adamczyk    
Samaira Ahuja    
Jordan Alexander    
Isabella Altier    
Anna Armijo    
Brendan Bailey    
Delia Bakal    
Tristan Bardales    
Emma Barnard    
Emily Barnes    
Tae Bazata    
Ryan Bell    
Analiese Bergmans    
Christopher Blair    
Theodore Blanc    
Ariella Blatt    
Tyler Bleil    
Henry Brauweiler    
Lucas Breed    
Soraya Breed    
Abigail Brown    
Grady Campo    
Summer Campo    
Emma Carlon    
Olivia Carofano    
Carina Carpi    
Larkin Celiberti    
Joseph Cerami    
Julia Cereghino    
Henry Chandra    
Nicolas Chesnais    
Clemens Clasby    
Lyla Cody    
Ava Cook    
Jack Cooley    
Anthony Costanzo    
William Cox    
Nicole Cuda    
David Cuenca Goddard    
Nicolo D’Andrea    
Ayush Dave    
Antonia de Guzman    
Anthony DelCarmine    
Adrian Delicata    
Parker Della Bitta    
Isabella DeVito    
Blake DiCapua    
Magdalena Dinger    
Gavin Dinning    
Nathan Dinning    
Julian Doshi    
James Dunkin    
Aya Elmernissi    
Marlena Ericsson    
Sophia Fallon    
Lauren Fico    
Julia Fittipaldi    
Cormac Flaherty-Lovy    
Olive Gallagher    
Bauer Gammill    
Liam Gelvin    
Giuliana Gianatasio    
Avery Griffiths    
Nicholas Grubelic    
Emma Grzymski    
Natalie Hamilton    
Archie Hancock    
Graysen Handler    
Emma Hassan    
Michael Hiraman    
Dylan Ho    
Molly Holmstead    
Alma Hsu    
Saira Isfahani    
Eleni Ivanov    
George Ives    
Niyathi Iyengar    
Avery Jakovic    
Helena Jan    
Isabelle Janiga    
Lucas Jetnil    
Miraclyn John Yesudian    
Tatum Kazlauskas    
Isabelle Kelly    
Lanford Kenny    
Katharine Kerko    
Cormac Kilkenny    
Quinn Kilkenny    
Andrew Kim    
Gabriella Konspore    
Tucker Kosofsky    
Sophia La Magna    
Preston Lambeth    
Lia Lavin    
Camryn Lee    
Charlotte Lee    
Selena Lee    
Benjamin Leibowitz    
Caden Leslie    
Francesca Limone    
Rogan Lowe    
Natalia Lundberg    
Cameron Lyden    
Tristan MacAllister    
Aleksander MacIver    
Lisa Mallozzi    
Wellington Mara    
Grace Marcogliese    
Yanfer Martinez    
Braydan Mazabras    
Mason McClave    
James McInerney    
Colin McKiernan    
Nolan McLaughlin    
Timothy McManus    
Andrew Meli    
Jack Mitchell    
Ryan Monohan    
Evelyn Morales    
Juan Moreno Munera    
Harlow Munoz    
Colleen Murphy    
John Murphy    
Patrick Neville    
Madison Norton    
Spencer Osborne    
Ava Pagano    
Kashvi Parashar    
Paiton Pascarella    
Cara Passios    
Emily Pastushan    
Chloe Perkins    
Bennett Pertusiello    
Madeleine Peterson    
Serena Peterson    
Ashton Pinkernell    
Morgan Pitts    
Naomi Pitts    
Emma Prior    
Kian Andrei Ragaza    
Emma Ridolfi    
Anne-Eva Ritter    
Claire-Helene Ritter    
Lily Roen    
Serra Savasoglu    
Molly Schimmeck    
Samuel Schoonmaker    
Jeremy Schubert    
Phoebe Schuh    
Sadie Sharma    
Ryan Shih    
Thomas Shullman    
Graydon Sieghart    
Elizabeth Smock    
Leni So    
Lily Sommers    
Aubrey Stevenson    
Megan Stewart    
Leni Storm    
Siya Sukhani    
William Teles    
Emily Telesco    
Michael Telesco    
Reagan Thom    
Zane Tickoo    
Marco Tignanelli    
Luke Ungaro    
James Vaccaro    
Victoria Vaccaro    
Kelly Vance    
Anna Vertin    
Brooks Walker    
Skyla Warren    
Shane Wartinbee    
Isabelle White    
Linkin Wong    
William Wunderlich   

Grade 10 High Honors

Eva Alexander    
Emma Amaya    
Krista Ancker    
Aiden Anderson    
Chloe Armstrong    
Peter Belov    
Lucy Bench    
Edward Bliss    
Kirsten Borner    
Sadie Boroff    
Sofia Brooks    
Maxwell Brown    
Hayden Burke    
John Burke    
Jack Busby    
Leighton Busby    
Isabella Caamano    
Isabella Calaba    
Macyn Callahan    
Isla Campbell    
Nathaniel Carr    
Claire Chen    
Carolina Chimera    
Allison Cicia    
Isabella Coca    
Boyd Cousley    
Colin Cronk    
Jackson Crowell    
Jack Dalipi    
Margaret Dayton    
Sienna de Kanter    
Zoe de Munnink    
Victor Ding    
Charlotte Doak    
Matilda Doak    
Nola Dockwell    
Evangeline Dolger    
Kane Duggar    
Henry Durfee    
Rayan El Hattab    
Eric Encinger    
Michael Ettinger    
Christopher Feliz    
Clare Fields    
Julie Frangione    
Kate Frangione    
Valentina Fuentes Jimenez    
Connor Furman    
Augustus Gardiner    
Meghan Garvey    
Jason Generalis    
Phoebe Glynn    
Liam Gonzalez    
Lola Gonzalez    
Leah Granskog    
Emma Greenhut    
Mairead Greiner    
Clare Greisen    
Caroline Haddad    
Evelyne Han    
Andrew Harmon    
Annaliese Hering    
Joshua Herman    
Liam Hibbert    
Fearghus Hillmann    
Whitney Hoegstedt    
Cora Huang    
Morgan Hull    
Graham Jackson    
Quinn Jens    
Aksh Juneja    
Isabelle Kim    
Madelyn Kinsley    
Kaitlyn Knowles    
Charlie Koch    
Madeline Kupchak    
Gabriella La Magna    
Henrik Lang    
Eliza Lorenz    
Tessa Madden    
Reid Maggio    
Ava Magliacano    
Roxanna Magratten    
Anna Makar    
Dante Marsili    
Juliette Martinez    
David Marz    
Stella Maxey    
Andres McMahon    
Beatrice Merritt    
Emerson Miller    
Aedan Mitchell    
Susanna Moor    
William Morawa    
Anais Moutran    
Hayden Murray-Smith    
Caitlin Neville    
Adrian Novothny    
Pruthvi Nukala    
Madeline O’Hara    
Michael O’Malley    
Addison O’Reilly    
Henry Oak    
Dariel Ortiz    
Lucy Paine    
Elisabeth Panagrossi    
Yeva Pankova    
Pierce Parkhill    
Grace Pellicci    
Ava Pils    
Audrey Pittaro    
Cambree Plater    
Isabelle Pound    
Liliana Racioppi    
Henry Reagan    
Matthew Reed    
Alexia Rees    
Layne Resnick    
Ava Reynolds    
Anika Rizvi    
Owen Robie    
Isla Roen    
John Ryan    
Daniel Sabo    
Liv Saedal    
Michael Sargis    
Charlotte Sawyer    
Samantha Schaufler    
Julia Scripps    
Gia Servidio    
Aryana Shah    
Sophia Sibilia    
Isabella Sieckhaus    
Noah Sieckhaus    
Jacob Silver    
Jackson Singer    
Nancy Skidmore    
Scarlett Stewart    
Allison Stiles    
Skylar Strupp    
Saras Sukhani    
William Tamasco    
Magdalina Tereha    
Nilasha Thirumalai    
Elle Thompson    
Jack Thompson    
Victoria Tremblay    
Sydney Tunney    
Emilia Veroude    
Matthew Vertin    
Jenna Vigano    
Jayne Visokey    
George Wang    
Kieran Wartinbee    
Peyton Woerz    
Willem Wrede    
Mariana Zepeda    
Leah Zheng    
Tessa Zimmerman    
Zachary Zusman   

Grade 9 High Honors

Jayke Aedo    
Tyler Anderson    
Teagan Arnold    
Olivia Aronson    
Neel Arora    
Aria Babayev    
Christian Baker    
Leo Baroni    
Hannah Barr    
Heath Barry    
Brandon Barua    
Cole Bleil    
Grace Bomann    
Devin Boulanger    
Sabrina Bourlatskii    
Stefania Bragason    
Emery Brown    
Henry Buczkiewicz    
Katherine Caamano    
Sophia Cain    
Cole Candee    
Elizabeth Carlon    
Mackenzie Carriero    
Jane Carroll    
Louisa Carter    
Jonathan Case    
Lauren Casey    
Luciana Casey    
Eleanor Clarke    
Tatum Colthup    
Adele Cousley    
Charlotte Crehan    
Grace Culbertson    
Sophia D’Elisa    
Charles Daniels    
Luke Dart-Miller    
Marco de Guzman    
Bridget de Kanter    
Sean Deasy    
Gavin DeGaetano    
Emmeline DeMuth    
Emily Desrosiers    
Lucy Detmer    
George Diamantis    
Julia DiGiacomo    
Maeve Driscoll    
William Duffee    
Abigail Dunlap    
Sophia Dunlap    
Christopher Emeagwali    
Cole Esposito    
Joseph Felice    
Ella Ferrer    
Sheila Finn    
Olivia Finnerty    
Charles Firneno    
Rocco Fittipaldi    
Desmond Fitzpatrick    
William Flynn    
Madeleine Frisch    
Shun Fu    
Dallas George    
Sofia Giammarco    
Robert Gilliam    
Jaden Gjokazaj    
Brooke Glazar    
Colin Goldman    
Liam Goodhart    
Victoria Gorzkowicz    
Leo Grady    
Corinna Gustafson    
Brooke Hanlon    
Margaret Hanson    
Stella Heijens    
Conor Heron    
Charlotte Heyn    
Bree Hickey    
Andrew Hojnacki    
Jessamyn Hole    
Lucy Horowitz    
Kiki Horsburgh    
Charlotte Huetter    
Oscar Humphreys    
Tulah Imbruce    
Christian Ivanov    
Arshia Iyer    
Jack-Oliver Jamin    
Yuqing Jiang    
Abigail Johnsen    
Lucca Jones    
Caroline Kelly    
Natalie Kenin    
Alexander Kerko    
Nicholas Kerko    
Thomas Kim    
Abigail Kosofsky    
Elijah Kremer    
Ryder Kutney    
Eva La Magna    
Chloe Lee    
Jacob Lee    
Nicholas Lee    
Milena Lencyk    
Jason Lin    
Maya Lundberg    
Scarlett MacAllister    
Sachi Malhotra    
Connor Mallin    
Sofia Mallozzi    
Emily Marciano    
Freya Matchavanit    
Pari Mathur    
Priti Mathur    
Abigail McClure    
Nora McDonough    
Emery McIntosh    
Andrew McKee    
Melanie McMurry    
Emma McPartland    
Dane Mitchell    
Molly Monohan    
Julianna Moore    
Xi Nan    
Mariia Nestertseva    
Braxton Niedermeier    
Alyssa O’Connor    
Hunter Oliva    
Anabelle Otto    
Caroline Palmer    
Charlotte Parker    
Olivia Parker   
Nicholas Passios    
Zachary Pavlowsky    
Luke Perretta    
Luca Pisant    
Maryn Plumb    
Vivaan Powari    
Blake Pozatek    
Cailin Prostor    
Patrick Quill    
Lillian Quinn    
Yuvan Raju    
Samantha Ramirez    
Ethan Ready    
Amalie Reis    
Brendon Retana    
Leila Ridolfi    
Finn Robertson    
Keira Robertson    
Roger Rosales    
Mia Ross    
Charles Rotchford    
Beatrice Row    
Aidan Salas    
Gabrielle Savelli    
Riley Scherer    
Sophie Schettino    
Eleanor Schilpp    
Haley Schlafman    
Riley Schlafman    
Katherine Scholtz    
Rebecca Schubert    
Madison Schulte    
Raina Shah    
Colin Sharma    
Cooper Smith    
Cyrus Stevenson    
William Stimpson    
Kaleb Tan    
Hemming Thackray    
Jake Tirana    
Gabriel Treloar    
Peter Tsapralis    
Eloise Tuff    
Katherine Ulrich    
Helena Ungaro    
Isabel Vaccaro    
Lucia Valente    
Alexander Vetterli    
Dean Vinca    
Jack Vincent    
Chandler Wagner    
Elliot Walls    
Anthony Westhead    
Eleanor Whinery    
Grey Wildman    
Nathan Zhan    
Milo Zinser-Trudel    
Sophia Zoog   

Grade 12 Honors

Saivinish Akavaramu    
Matthew Angilletta    
Ashton Baker    
John Baluyut    
Payton Bambace    
Parthav Bhattarai    
William Brooks    
Stephen Brown    
Graham Butler    
Christina Carr
James Casey    
Catalina Chanler    
Ahaan Chawla    
Charles Cushman    
Carielle D’Elisa    
Jacqueline Dathan    
Allan de Munnink    
Wilhemina DeFosset    
Drew DeGaetano    
Darian DiMuzio    
John Disturco    
Grace Driscoll    
Lily Dunn    
Noah Ferraro    
Hettie Fillingham    
Robert Frangione    
Sarah Frank    
Joaquin Garcia-Berg    
Joshua Geyfman    
Theodore Goetz    
Juan Carlos Gonzalez    
Alexandra Grady    
Taliyah Green    
Brooke Gusitsch    
Jack Haley    
Carter Halsell    
Jonas Marcus Hansen    
Edward Harrison    
Brianna Healey    
Ella Healey    
Stuart Hellmann    
Hayley Hewitt    
Lachlan Ivaneza    
Cassandra Jessen    
Jack Kalten    
Harper Kenny    
Meredith Knauf    
Alexandra Kotlyar    
Ryan Leahy    
Viola Li    
Ava Licata    
Lauren Livesay    
Slade Logsdon    
Dianna Luccarelli    
Avril MacHale    
Daniela Madrazo    
Tara Menon    
Maxiene Mirin    
Georgina Nanfan    
Leanela Negron    
Lily Nicolet    
Nichole Nizzardo    
Anuj Ogale    
Sydney Patten    
Cecilia Patterson    
Anthony Pellicci    
Charles Place    
Paige Place    
Aidan Rama    
Dylan Rees    
Matthew Riley    
Brayden Robie    
Sophie Root    
William Roscoe    
Emma Row    
Katharine Russell    
Katherine Sawyer    
Patrick Saxe    
Martin Scofield    
Urtina Sejdaj    
Cora Shooshan    
Lauren Smith    
Michael Smith    
Ava Smock    
Santiago Sosa    
Caroline Squillante    
Michael Stadnik-Poteroba    
Hugo Sutton    
Lucas Taylor    
Brooks Thompson    
Lisa Tremblay    
Everett Trygg    
Brenden Wells    
Charles Williams    
Lindsay Zaffino    
Faizal Zakir Zakir Hussain    
Luke Zinczenko   

Grade 11 Honors

Leticya Abdala    
Sophie Adamczyk    
Samantha Aliapoulios    
Jude Antoniou    
Ethan Aronson    
Juliet Axtell    
Theodore Bach    
James Bakal    
Valentina Baldini
Bradford Benton    
Bela Bhatt    
Maxwell Boccaccio    
Peter Brandt    
Ryan Brooks    
Thaddeus Burley    
Cole Campisi    
Oliver Carr    
Dylann Cook    
Natalia Cota    
Conor Deasy    
Lyla DeGaetano    
Savannah Delany    
Marissa DelCarmine    
Christopher DeMuth    
Sarah DeScenza    
Owen Ditlevsen    
Jackson Dooley    
Andrew Esposito    
Lina Ettamymy    
Ryan Francis    
Ellis Frey    
Brooke Garcia    
Elizabeth Gearhart    
Matthew George    
Peter Goodyear    
Victoria Greer    
Liam Hall    
Lindsay Hanlon    
Charlotte Hanover    
Michael Harris    
Grant Hickey    
Tessa Helen Howarth    
Daniel Hull    
Parker Ivezaj    
Ryan Jordan    
Zak Joslin    
Emma Kelly    
Theresa Kelly    
Melaina Kenin    
Grayson Ladley    
Jake Lettera    
Andrew Liebau    
Mia Lockyer    
Ananya Malhotra    
Gray Matthews    
Grace McIntosh    
Arya Mitra    
Jackson Mountford    
Miles Nam-Hardie    
Nikolas Nikeas    
Clare O’Shea    
Matthew Peloso    
Riyaan Raghavan    
Joel Ramos    
Carson Roeder    
Tyler Santiago    
Eliana Savelli    
Lorelei Schletter    
Blake Schwartz    
Aurora Shala    
Sanjay Sivakumar    
Aaciya Sonthonnax    
Lylah Spring    
Harrison Stainer    
Ryan Stannard    
Henry Stein    
Christopher Studzinski    
Bennett Uzpen    
Jake Valente    
George Volanakis    
Blake Wheeler    
Mason Wheeler    
Caroline Wood    
Peter Zwick   

Grade 10 Honors

David Asare    
Phoenix Bennett    
Emilia Bieliauskaite    
Brooke Bisesi    
Clementine Bo    
Edward Bradley    
Charles Burges    
Dylan Buschmann    
Jane Morgan Cantor    
Benjamin Chen    
Ethan Cheuk    
Henry Choi    
Madison Ciavarelli    
Claire Coleman    
Charles Cuesta    
Chloe Cui    
Fiona Curri    
Liam Danaher    
Luciana Di Dodo    
Andra Doneit    
Peter Dooney    
William Ericson    
Mitchell Ericsson    
Stanley Fillingham    
Beck Findlay    
Colin Finnerty    
Cooper Fox    
Wes Gallo    
Veronica Gass    
William Gerritsen    
Oliver Gershey    
Michael Harold    
Jonah Heirshberg    
Maddox Hoffman    
Milana Hutchins    
Anabel James    
Jack Karczmit    
Mina Karimnejad    
Alanna Kell    
Ethan Kremer    
Charles Kropf    
John Larkin    
Lucianne Lavigne    
Gus Leffers    
Haoran Li    
Maya Liu    
Erica Ma    
Andrew Mastronardi    
Milo McCaughey    
Griffin McGurk    
Stone Milligan    
Amira-Marie Mitchell    
Finn Mocco    
Nickoloz Natsvlishvili    
Marina Notari Fontes    
Vishnu Nukala    
Marjorie Nurzia    
John O’Neill    
Charles O’Shea    
Sofia Patterson    
Owen Pesaturo    
Nicholas Plasencia    
Hadley Rattigan    
Gabriel Rosario Mejia    
Sebasthian Rosario Mejia    
Lucille Roscoe    
Sheila Savage    
Gabriella Scofield    
Vlera Sejdaj    
Alexander Sillo    
Sophia Simpson    
Matthew Sisser    
Rial Smedley    
Lolly Socaransky    
Thomas Tchakarov    
Benjamin Thomas    
Catherine Ticsa    
Henyerson Tolentino    
Theodore Tonkovich    
Olivia Vellante    
Marquesa Weigel    
Ava Welch    
Molly Wolter    
Tatum Woodie    
Daniel Yang    
Charles Zaffino    
Vivienne Zuwiyya   

Grade 9 Honors

Nicholas Almasan    
Maya Aquino    
Lucas Azzopardi    
Olivia Barbera    
Austin Barr    
Matteo Battisti    
Sofia Boccaccio    
Lucy Bomann    
Sydney Bonheur    
William Breen    
Sophia Cantu    
Marianna Ceballos   
Nicholas Cerami    
Kendall Ciccotelli    
Katherine Cicia    
Chloe Coleman    
Poppy Cullen   
Chris Cunningham    
Anasophia D’Andrea    
Roman D’Andrea    
James Detmer    
Elena Dillon    
Felix Dinger    
Karlee Doscher    
Reece Doyle    
Samuel Dunn    
Benjamin Dymond    
Jack Ericson    
Bracelen Flood    
Margot Frey    
Evelyn Garcia    
Alexa Gencarelli    
Campbell Greiner    
Claire Hellmann    
Thomas Heyn    
Claire Hickey    
Sarah Hull    
Kathryn Iacono    
Serena Johnson    
Alexandra Jordanopoulos    
Benjamin Konigsberg    
Courtney Marchiony    
Caleb May    
Madison McDougall    
Frank Mercede    
Michael Mocco    
Paige Monohan    
Jack Nicolet    
Nora Nussbaum    
Jackson O’Hara    
Sophie Olesen    
Julia Olesnevich    
Sarthak Parikh    
Samuel Quimbaya-Torres    
Rehan Sanish    
Ava Schinella    
Tyler Schwartz    
Benjamin Scott    
Beatrice Sexton    
Nishant Shenoy    
Cayden Shih    
Spencer Skyrm    
Julianna Spordone    
Amelia Stainer    
Tyler Suh    
Charles Sullivan    
Thomas Sullivan    
Gregory Susanin    
Archie Sutton    
Petra Tessitore    
Hailey Tobin    
Eliza Van Amburg    
Luke Williams    
Matthias Yoo    
Dean Yurista   

‘We Feel Fortunate’: NCHS Post Prom 2025 [Q&A]

Plans are well underway for the New Canaan High School class of 2025 Post Prom, a beloved local tradition that goes back 66 years. We caught up with the Post Prom 2025 fundraising team—Alexis Brooks, Clara Hansen and Sapna Shah—to learn more about the special night, its history, popularity, nuts-and-bolts and place in the community. Here’s our exchange. ***
New Canaanite: For locals who don’t know, please provide some background on the NCHS Post Prom event. Alexis Brooks: This time-honored New Canaan tradition – and a culmination of NCHS students’ experience – is celebrating its 66th anniversary.

Town Seeks To Designate Additional ‘School Zones’ for South, Saxe and NCHS

Town officials say they’re preparing to ask the state for additional “school zone” designations near South School, Saxe Middle School and New Canaan High School. Under state law, fines can be doubled for motorists in areas “sufficiently close to school property as to constitute a risk to the public safety,” and such school zones can be designated by the Connecticut Department of Transportation’s Office of State Traffic Authority or local traffic authority. In New Canaan, the local traffic authority is the Police Commission. Asked about the status of the town’s plans, Public Works Director Tiger Mann told NewCanaanite.com that his department is “in the process of reviewing the areas and plan to bring our proposed plan to the Office of State Traffic Authority and the Police Commission shortly.” (Some New Canaan roads, such as South Avenue and Old Stamford Road, double as state routes.)

School zones are marked with signs that read “School Zone Ahead Fines Doubled” and “End School Zone,” by law. Members of the Police Commission raised the topic at the appointed body’s Jan.