Summary:
Gallatin CUSD 7 has one elementary school, Gallatin Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 4, with 314 students. Its 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism rate was 16%, below the district’s 19% and Illinois’ 24%. The clearest takeaway for parents is a mixed academic picture: the school’s all-grades math proficiency was above the state rate, while its ELA proficiency was below it.
There are no other listed schools to compare as local leaders or trailers; against Illinois, math is the school’s stronger subject. In 2025–2026, 45% of students were proficient in math, about 6 percentage points above the state’s 40%; in ELA, 50% were proficient, 6 points below the state’s 56%. Results also vary by grade: grade 3 math was 50% proficient, 1 point above the state, while grade 4 math was 40%, 2 points below. In ELA, grade 3 was 43%, 5 points below the state, while grade 4 was 58%, 2 points above.
Math improved relative to the state, while ELA fell further behind. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the school’s math proficiency rose from 39% to 45%, while the state rate increased from 39% to 40%; its ELA proficiency declined from 52% to 50%, while the state rate rose from 53% to 56%. SchoolDigger’s ranking also moved down, from the 67th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 42nd in 2025–2026, and its star rating went from three stars to two. As context, in 2024–2025 the school had a 13.2:1 student-teacher ratio, and 57% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. With only one school in the list, there are no local peer comparisons.
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