Duff-Allen Central Elementary

Duff-Allen Central Elementary is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Eastern, Kentucky, one of the schools within Floyd County, instructing 376 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Within Floyd County, which oversees 14 schools and 5,347 students, Duff-Allen Central Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Duff-Allen Central Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%); the rest comes out to 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Floyd County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school reports having 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Duff-Allen Central Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.4%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Floyd County indicate the typical household earns roughly $41,279 per year, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 22%. Across Floyd County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,347 students), Duff-Allen Central Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Floyd Central High School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Duff-Allen Central Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Duff-Allen Central Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 40.6%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Duff-Allen Central Elementary has fell 41%, going from 637 students in 2018 to 376 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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