The American School Board Journal has named the District a "Magna Award" winner five times through 2006.
[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.
On May 5, 2009, just after 11 a.m., a 17-year-old senior male student named Thomas Kane committed suicide while in a high school boys' bathroom.
Responding police authorities determined that the gunshot wound to Thomas Kane was self-inflicted and an isolated incident.
Police discovered 30 rounds of ammunition on Kane and in his locker, along with improvised incendiary weapons, or molotov cocktails.