Summary:
Galva’s list includes one school, Canton-Galva Elementary, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 and enrolling 193 students. The most important finding is that its 2025–26 proficiency was below Kansas in all three subjects, with the widest gaps in math and science.
There are no local schools to compare, so Canton-Galva Elementary is both the area’s highest- and lowest-performing school by default. In 2025–26, 42% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 26% in math, and 23% in science; those results were 4, 15, and 15 percentage points below the state, respectively. Grade 5 results show the sharpest concern: proficiency was 27% in ELA, 7% in math, and 23% in science, compared with 51%, 45%, and 46% statewide. The school’s smallest grade-level gaps were in grade 3 math, where it was 2 points above the state, and grade 4 ELA, where it was 3 points above.
Results fell from 2024–25 to 2025–26 in every subject: by 6 percentage points in ELA, 9 in math, and 15 in science. The school had been 4 points above Kansas in ELA in 2024–25, but was 4 points below the following year; its math and science gaps also widened. SchoolDigger rates the school one star and ranks it 495th of 657 Kansas schools, in the 25th percentile; its percentile ranking fell 13 points from the prior year. One measure is more favorable: chronic absenteeism was 10%, below the Canton-Galva district rate of 29% and the state rate of 18%. The school’s student–teacher ratio was 11.1, and its free/reduced-lunch rate was 44%; these figures provide context, not explanations for test results.
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