Summary:
Junction, Illinois, has three schools in Gallatin CUSD 7, serving students from prekindergarten through grade 12: Gallatin Elementary School (314 students), Gallatin Junior High School (186), and Gallatin High School (203). In 2025–26 all-grades IAR results, Junior High led in ELA at 61% proficient, compared with Elementary’s 50% and the state’s 56%. The most important concern is Junior High’s mathematics result: 17% proficient, 22 percentage points below the state and 28 points below Elementary.
The strongest results depend on the subject and grade span. Elementary led the two schools with all-grades IAR results in mathematics, at 45% proficient—6 points above the state’s 40%—while its ELA result was 6 points below the state. Junior High had the strongest all-grades ELA result, 5 points above the state, but its mathematics result was 22 points below. At High, grade 11 ACT results were slightly above state results in both reported subjects: ELA was 54% versus 50%, and science was 49% versus 48%. Those results contrast with grade 9 and 10 PreACT, where the school was below state in both reported subjects; its ELA shortfalls were 18 points in grade 9 and 8 points in grade 10.
Recent results show different directions of change rather than one consistent trend. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, High’s grade 11 ACT proficiency rose 16 points in ELA and 27 points in science, while its grade 9 ELA fell 22 points and grade 10 ELA fell 12 points on PreACT. SchoolDigger’s ranking percentiles also moved differently: Elementary declined from 67 to 42 and Junior High from 64 to 49, while High rose from 28 to 36. For context, 2024–25 student-teacher ratios were 13.2 at Elementary, 11.4 at Junior High, and 11.8 at High. The reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares for 2024–25 were 57%, 60%, and 53%, respectively; these figures describe the schools’ context, not what explains their results.
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