Galena High

Galena High is one of the low-enrollment high schools in Galena, Kansas, operated by Galena, with 236 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 42% smaller than the typical public school in Kansas, which averages around 410 students.

Galena comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 825 students; Galena High is among them.

In terms of who attends, Galena High reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%); the rest breaks down as 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Galena High reports 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 58% of students at Galena High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Galena High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.6%, the actual is 24.2%, a residual of -10.4 points.

Around the school, Cherokee County reports that median household earnings sit near $57,668, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Galena High is one of 17 public schools in Cherokee County (combined enrollment of about 3,647 students).

The closest other public school is Galena Virtual School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Galena High at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 37.7%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Galena High's enrollment has shrank 16% since 2018, when it stood at 282 (now 236). Over the same period, the White share declined from 89% to 83%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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