24 public K-12 schools in Allen from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Allen has more public-school enrollment than 93% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Allen sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.
16 of Allen's 24 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.
Free-lunch eligibility is reported for schools covering 65.8% of Allen's listed enrollment. Because the remaining enrollment is outside that calculation, the measured percentage should not be generalized to every local student. The Resource Investment Index uses other reported federal fields and has its own coverage limits. Treat the city figures as a map of available records: inspect a campus's source fields before using economic need or resource position in a comparison.
That concentration means Allen-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Allen school enrollment ranges from 3 students (lowest) to 5,206 students (highest), a spread of 5,203 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Allen is typically wider than the Allen-aggregate figure suggests.
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Frances E Norton El | 62 |
| 2. | Lowery Freshman Center | 58 |
| 3. | Beverly El | 58 |
| 4. | Mary Evans El | 57 |
| 5. | W E Pete Ford Middle | 53 |
| 6. | George J Anderson El | 52 |
| 7. | Allen H S | 51 |
| 8. | Walter & Lois Curtis Middle | 51 |
| 9. | Alton Boyd El | 49 |
| 10. | Ereckson Middle | 48 |
| 11. | Kerr El | 47 |
| 12. | Flossie Floyd Green El | 47 |
| 13. | Jenny Preston El | 46 |
| 14. | Beverly Cheatham El | 46 |
| 15. | D L Rountree El | 46 |
| 16. | Gene M Reed El | 46 |
| 17. | David and Lynda Olson El | 45 |
| 18. | Max O Vaughan El | 44 |
| 19. | Alvis C Story El | 44 |
| 20. | Dr E T Boon El | 42 |
| 21. | Carlena Chandler El | 41 |
| 22. | James and Margie Marion El | 41 |
| 23. | Collin Co J J a E P | 30 |
| 24. | Lovejoy Childhood Development Center | - |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
Frances E Norton El has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Allen schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Allen has 24 public schools with a total enrollment of 20,326 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
