Galesburg Middle School
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Test scores
KAP 2024-25 . % Meeting + ExceedingWhat this means: On the KAP, Kansas's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Kansas schools, those numbers are about 45 and 39. Reading and writing scores are up about 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% typical for Kansas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Kansas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Galesburg Middle School
Located at 6955 Kingman Rd, in Galesburg, Kansas, Galesburg Middle School is a very small 6-8 campus that caters to 112 students (grades 5 through 8), operated by Erie-Galesburg. By comparison, Kansas's public schools average about 402 students each, so Galesburg Middle School sits 72% leaner than that benchmark.
Galesburg Middle School is one of 3 schools operated by Erie-Galesburg, a district that works with 438 students overall.
On demographics, Galesburg Middle School shows that nearly all students (87%) are White; the rest consists of 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Galesburg Middle School shows 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.2:1. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Galesburg Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.6%, the actual is 27.8%, a residual of -2.7 points.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Neosho County indicate the typical household earns roughly $56,618 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Neosho County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,406 students), Galesburg Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Thayer Schools, around 6.8 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Galesburg Middle School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 31.7%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Galesburg Middle School has ticked down 5%, going from 118 students in 2018 to 112 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 94% to 87% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.
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