NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Galesburg, IL

Compiled from official source data by PlainSchools. · Updated August 2026

6 public K-12 schools in Galesburg from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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Schools

3,345

Students

31.8/100

Avg Resource Index

14.4:1

Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Galesburg has more public-school enrollment than 34% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Galesburg's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Galesburg's 6 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 0 middle and 0 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

The composite and staffing measures point in different directions

Galesburg's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 16th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 62nd percentile. The 46-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.

City enrollment: Top 66%
School count: Top 79%
Resource Index average: 16th percentile
Teacher staffing: 62nd percentile

Galesburg Senior High School accounts for 34.6% of all Galesburg public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Galesburg-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Galesburg school enrollment varies 6.6× across entities

Galesburg school enrollment ranges from 176 students (lowest) to 1,158 students (highest), a spread of 982 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Galesburg operates one school district — a single-district system

Galesburg's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Accessed 2026-08-26

Galesburg student-teacher ratio is 14.4:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Galesburg is typically wider than the Galesburg-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe Accessed 2026-08-26

#	School	Score	Enrollment	Level	District
1.	Silas Willard Elem School	47	425	elementary	Galesburg Cusd 205
2.	Galesburg Senior High School	31	1,158	Combined	Galesburg Cusd 205
3.	King School	30	510	elementary	Galesburg Cusd 205
4.	Bright Futures Pre-K Prog	30	176	Combined	Galesburg Cusd 205
5.	Lombard Middle School	27	534	elementary	Galesburg Cusd 205
6.	Steele School	26	542	elementary	Galesburg Cusd 205

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Galesburg

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

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Which Galesburg school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Silas Willard Elem School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Galesburg schools in this federal-data comparison at 47/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Galesburg, IL? ▼

Galesburg has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,345 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.4:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.