Berkshire Junior-Senior High School is the only school located in the Berkshire Union Free School District. It has 38 classrooms, 26 offices, a cafeteria and various storage & mechanical rooms. There is also an auditorium and gymnasium. The 13,000 + square foot dining hall has a state of the art commercial kitchen. There are 5 separate dormitories, each with 20 bedrooms & full kitchen. 4 additional buildings are used for student & staff housing as well as 2 single family homes. There is also a stone chapel, a student & staff infirmary and a large maintenance garage with lifts in 4 bays. For outdoor sports there is substantial water frontage on Queechy Lake and a field with bleachers suitable for soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, football etc. All buildings currently in use are heated with natural gas. This 890+- acre property offers many potential opportunities due to the advantage of the existing infrastructure.

Canaan is located in New York. Canaan, New York has a population of 1,762. Canaan is less family-centric than the surrounding county with 19.84% of the households containing married families with children. The county average for households married with children is 22.64%.
The median household income in Canaan, New York is $98,472. The median household income for the surrounding county is $73,065 compared to the national median of $69,021. The median age of people living in Canaan is 53.8 years.
The average high temperature in July is 80.6 degrees, with an average low temperature in January of 11.5 degrees. The average rainfall is approximately 45.9 inches per year, with 63.2 inches of snow per year.