The top reported proficiency rate is 80% in Math. The lowest is 0% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Galata School
Galata School serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade, but only a single student was enrolled in the year for which data is available. That student was in kindergarten, and the school’s grade span runs from prekindergarten through eighth grade. The student body is reported as white, and information on economic disadvantage, students with disabilities, and English learners was not provided.
State test results exist for a very small group of students. In math, the share scoring proficient or above was well above the midpoint among the handful of students tested, with complete participation. In English language arts, the share scoring proficient or above was above the midpoint, again with full participation. In science, only one student was tested, and that student did not score at the proficient level. These results come from such a small number of test-takers that they offer little basis for drawing conclusions about the school’s academic program. Because the school does not serve high school grades, there is no graduation rate to report.
The school is part of the Galata Elem district, which as of the 2023-2024 school year contained this one school. Publicly reported sources indicate that Galata School closed in 2025, a fundamental change for anyone considering the area. The district’s enrollment had fallen to a single student in recent years, and the closure means there is no longer a school operating within the district.
Galata itself is a tiny unincorporated community along the Hi-Line, described publicly as having a population in the very low double digits. It originated as a Great Northern Railway station and agricultural shipping point, once hosting multiple lumberyards and stores during the homestead boom of the early 1900s. The community has been in steep decline since the 1920s, when drought and falling wheat prices collapsed the local agricultural economy, and the Depression of the 1930s accelerated the loss. Publicly reported sources describe it today as having a few occupied homes, a church, a post office, and a motel with a convenience store and gas station that is the only such stop between the towns of Chester and Shelby. There is no walkable street life, no downtown, and no public transit. The nearest civic services, including schools and the county seat, are in Shelby, a distance to the west along U.S. Highway 2.
For a family or resident, the core fact is that Galata School is closed and its district no longer operates a school. The community is extremely small, has no growth trajectory, and has seen its population and commercial activity diminish over the course of a century. There is no local public school to attend, and families with school-age children would need to look to neighboring communities for educational options.
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