Galva Elem School

Galva Elem School is a close-knit elementary campus in Galva, Illinois, run under Galva CUSD 224. The school enrolls 280 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Illinois's public schools average about 381 students each, so Galva Elem School sits 27% leaner than that benchmark.

Galva CUSD 224 runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 471 students. Galva Elem School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Galva Elem School lists that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Henry County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.9:1, putting Galva Elem School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 43% of students at Galva Elem School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Galva Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.8%, the actual is 41.9%, a residual of -4.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Henry County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $71,911 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Henry County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,723 students), of which Galva Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Galva Jr-Sr High School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Galva Elem School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 39.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Galva Elem School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 284 (now 280). Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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