Best Public Schools in Zip Code 62954

Zip code 62954 has three schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12, with 703 students enrolled: Gallatin Elementary School, Gallatin Junior High School and Gallatin High School. The clearest contrast is at Junior High: its 2025–2026 all-grades ELA result was 61%, above the state’s 56%, while its math result was 17%, far below the state’s 40%. Elementary’s all-grades math result was stronger at 45%, while its ELA result was 50%. The most important finding is that Junior High stands out in ELA but has the area’s weakest reported math result.

For ELA, Junior High leads on the all-grades result, scoring 5 points above the state; its grade-level scores were above the state in grades 5, 7 and 8, but below it in grade 6. Elementary’s all-grades ELA result was 6 points below the state. Elementary leads the reported all-grades math results at 45%, compared with Junior High’s 17% and the state’s 40%; Junior High was 22 points below the state. At High School, grade-11 ACT results were a relative bright spot: 54% in ELA and 49% in science, compared with state results of 50% and 48%.

Results changed unevenly over time. Junior High’s all-grades ELA rose 5 points to 61%, while Elementary’s fell 2 points to 50%; in math, Elementary rose 7 points to 45% and Junior High slipped by less than a point to 17%. High School grade-11 ACT results rose 16 points in ELA and 27 points in science, but current grade-9 and grade-10 PreACT ELA and science results were below state results. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranks also diverged: Elementary fell from 67 to 42 over three years, Junior High from 64 to 49, while High School rose from 28 to 36. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 57% at Elementary, 60% at Junior High and 53% at High School; student-teacher ratios were 13.2, 11.4 and 11.8, respectively. Junior High also had the highest 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism, at 25%, versus 16% at Elementary and 17% at High School.