Summary:
Galion City serves roughly 1,559 students across four schools: two elementary schools — Galion Primary Elementary School (PK–2) and Galion Intermediate Elementary School (3–5) — plus Galion Middle School (6–9) and Galion High School (9–12). The district as a whole is rated 1 star and ranks 576 of 773 statewide, the 25th percentile, placing it in the lower quarter of Ohio districts. That 1-star, 25th-percentile rating applies to the district overall, not to each individual school.
Performance varies a lot by building. Galion Intermediate Elementary School has the district's lowest chronic absenteeism at 13.7%, well under the district's 20.2%, and its 3rd-grade ELA topped the state in both years (64.0% vs. 63.4% in 2025–2026 and 69.3% vs. 61.3% in 2024–2025). Galion Middle School beat the state in 8th-grade Science both years (64.5% vs. 61.2% and 77.8% vs. 63.0%) and reported 100% proficiency in Biology and Algebra I End-of-Course tests; those results likely reflect a small, select group rather than the whole school. Galion High School has a 96.7% graduation rate and English II above state both years, but also the district's highest absenteeism at 27.2%.
The clearest shared weakness is math. High School Geometry is 22.3% vs. 43.3% at state (and 15.4% vs. 42.8% the prior year), Algebra I is 46.7% vs. 61.6%, Intermediate 5th-grade Science is 41.1% vs. 62.7%, and Middle School 6th and 7th grade math are 36.4% vs. 56.2% and 36.5% vs. 48.6%. Each school has bright spots, yet gaps persist. Data is also incomplete: free/reduced-lunch figures are blank for all four schools, spending figures date to 2018–2019, and Galion Primary Elementary School has no recent test or rank data.
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