Elementary Schools in Canton-Galva

The Canton-Galva area has one listed elementary school, Canton-Galva Elementary, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 and enrolling 193 students. In 2025–26, 42% of students were proficient in ELA, 26% in math, and 23% in science, compared with state rates of 46%, 41%, and 38%. The most important concern is grade 5, where proficiency was 27% in ELA, 7% in math, and 23% in science—24, 38, and 22 percentage points below state rates, respectively.

There is no second listed school to compare with it, so Canton-Galva Elementary is the area’s top and bottom school by default; that does not show how it compares with other schools nearby. ELA is its relative strength overall: its result was 4 percentage points below the state rate, compared with gaps of 15 points in math and science. Grade-level results show important exceptions: grade 4 ELA was 3 points above the state, and grade 3 math was 2 points above. However, those strengths contrast with grade 5’s much lower results, so the all-grade figures do not tell the whole story.

Results moved down in all three subjects from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA fell 6 percentage points, math 9, and science 15, while state results rose in ELA and math and fell 3 points in science. The school’s average gap from state results across the three subjects widened by 10 points. SchoolDigger ranked Canton-Galva Elementary 495th of 657 Kansas schools, in the 25th percentile with one star, down from 406th and the 38th percentile the prior year. Attendance is a more favorable comparison: chronic absenteeism was 10%, versus 18% statewide and 29% in the Canton-Galva district. The school’s student-teacher ratio was 11.1 in 2024–25, and its free or reduced-price lunch rate was 44%. There are no other listed schools for comparing these characteristics.