Summary:
Zip code 61434 has two schools in Galva CUSD 224, serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Galva Elementary School serves grades PK–6, and Galva Junior-Senior High School serves grades 7–12. In 2025–26, the high school’s all-grades ELA proficiency was 69%, compared with 44% at the elementary school; math results were closer, at 35% and 38%, respectively. The key takeaway is a sharp ELA contrast: the high school is above the state, while the elementary school is below it.
The high school stands out in ELA, while the elementary school’s all-grades result is lower: high school ELA was 12 points above the state, and elementary ELA was 12 points below. The strongest grade-level result was high school 8th-grade ELA at 87%, 24 points above the state; the clearest concern was elementary 5th-grade ELA at 26%, 29 points below. Both schools’ all-grades math results fell below the state: elementary by 1 point and the high school by 4. Other measures offer positive signals: the high school graduation rate was 93%, 3 points above the state, and elementary chronic absenteeism was 15%, 9 points below it. Schoolwide scores compare schools with different grade spans, so they are not like-for-like comparisons.
Recent trends are mixed. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA rose by 7 points at the elementary school and 6 points at the high school, while elementary math fell by 8 points; high school math rose by 2 points but remained below the state. SchoolDigger gave both schools two stars in 2025–26, with statewide rankings at the 38th percentile for the elementary school and 35th for the high school, down 11 and 12 percentile points, respectively, from 2023–24. For context, 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible rates were 43% at the elementary school and 41% at the high school; student-teacher ratios were 13.1 and 10.1. These context measures distinguish the schools but do not establish what explains their results.
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