The village of Galesburg was established by George L. Gale when he came to Michigan in the fall of 1836. The village began as a settlement organized around a mill site and expanded to include a one-room school inside the first building erected in 1836. The first building was a frame structure erected by Philip Gray and was used as a store, dwelling, church and school.

The school was only in session in the winter when youth of the village were not needed on farms. The education center employed six teachers. By the 1860s, and with the expansion of the village of Galesburg, the school was relocated to a two-story brick structure built in the 1860s. By 1919, the school was graded and had graduated its first class under Superintendent Ross Ingersol in 1876. Based on the Kalamazoo Gazette issue published in early 1922s, the Galesburg grammar school was presumed to be grades 1st through 8 as it was named alongside the Galesburg High School.

In 1898 Galesburg High School’s football team was a record holder, victorious throughout the county. In 1919, the estimated population was 800 with attendance at the Galesburg Public Schools during that past year estimated at 194. A fire on March 22, 1920, devastated the school house, which was more than 50 years old at that time. The school house was rebuilt and continued to grow.

In 1951, members of the Galesburg community and those of neighboring Augusta joined to form a single public school district. Galesburg-Augusta Community Schools currently consist of a primary school and a high school in Galesburg, and a middle school in Augusta.

The history was summarized from the digitized pamphlet entitled Hightlights in Galesburg History MI 1919.