Canton-Galva

The Canton-Galva area has two schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Canton-Galva Elementary (prekindergarten–grade 5, 193 students) and Canton-Galva Junior/Senior High (grades 6–12, 174 students), with 367 students combined. The most important area-wide finding is that both schools are below state results in all three all-grades subjects, with the biggest average gaps in math and science: the equal-school averages are 13 and 12 percentage points below the state, compared with 5 points in ELA.

There is no single across-subject leader: Canton-Galva Elementary leads in ELA, scoring 42% versus 40% at the high school, while Canton-Galva Junior/Senior High leads in math, 31% versus 26%, and science, 29% versus 23%. Even the leaders remain below the state in those all-grades results. Some grade-level results are brighter spots: high-school sixth-grade ELA was 50% versus 42% statewide, and elementary fourth-grade ELA was 53% versus 50%. Fifth grade at elementary stands out as a concern: math proficiency was 7% versus 45% statewide, and ELA was 27% versus 51%.

Recent score trends diverged: elementary results fell by 6 percentage points in ELA, 9 in math, and 15 in science from 2024–25 to 2025–26; high-school results rose by 9 points in ELA, 2 in math, and 7 in science. SchoolDigger gives both schools one star; elementary is at the 25th percentile statewide, down from the 33rd, while the high school is at the 18th percentile, up from the 13th. Elementary has a lower student-teacher ratio (11.1 versus 12.7) and a higher reported free/reduced-lunch rate (44% versus 37%); these are context measures, not explanations for results. Attendance is a notable high-school concern: chronic absenteeism was 47%, compared with 10% at elementary and 18% statewide, although the high school’s graduation rate was 93% versus 90% statewide. All-grades results cover different grade spans, so they are not grade-matched comparisons.