The Glidden-Ralston Community School District earned “commendable” ratings from state education officials in its 2025 Iowa School Performance Profile. For mathematics, 73.14 percent of students were grade-level proficient, compared to the 70.93 percent average for Iowa students in general. Glidden-Ralston’s English language arts proficiency of 77.78 percent surpassed the state average by more than four percentage points. However, Glidden-Ralston students lagged behind in science proficiency, scoring 55.26 percent compared to the state’s average of 67.14 percent. Chronic absenteeism for Glidden-Ralston, 13.21 percent, was over two points lower than the 15.81 percent Iowa average.