Summary:
ZIP code 41622 has two schools in the Floyd County district: Floyd Central High School, serving grades 9–12, and Duff-Allen Central Elementary, serving PK–8; together, they enroll 910 students. The most important shared concern is attendance: chronic absenteeism is 35% at Floyd Central and 36% at Duff-Allen, compared with 24% statewide—11 and 12 percentage points higher, respectively.
Academic results vary substantially by grade and subject, so neither school is uniformly ahead of or behind the state. Floyd Central’s strongest reported result is 10th-grade reading, at 68% proficient versus 49% statewide, a 19-point lead; its 11th-grade writing is also 5 points above the state. At Duff-Allen, 7th-grade math is 62% versus 39% statewide, a 23-point lead, and 8th-grade writing leads by 19 points. The clearest low results are Duff-Allen’s 8th-grade editing and mechanics, 21% versus 42% statewide, and 5th-grade writing, 18% versus 35%. Floyd Central is 5 points below the state in 10th-grade math. These contrasts show why the specific grade and subject matter when considering a school.
Across 21 matched year-to-year comparisons, school proficiency scores rose by an average of 1 point, and the school-versus-state gap improved by about 1 point per comparison, but the direction differed by subject: math and science gaps generally improved, while editing and mechanics worsened. A notable exception is Duff-Allen 8th-grade editing and mechanics, which fell 40 points, while the state result fell 7; the gap worsened by 33 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rank rose from 43 to 60 for Floyd Central and from 30 to 37 for Duff-Allen between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. As context, Duff-Allen’s student-teacher ratio is 11.4, compared with 16.6 at Floyd Central; its share of students free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025 is 81%, versus 75% at Floyd Central. These are differences between the schools, not explanations for their results.
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