The Coffman School was located about three miles north of Elkton on the west side of the Luray Turnpike (currently Route 340). The school is noted but not named in Lake's 1885 Atlas of Rockingham County. The property for the Coffman School was deeded to the Stonewall District School Board on February 24, 1873 by B. F. Coffman and wife. The Coffman School was one of the oldest schools in eastern Rockingham, opening during the first year after the establishment of the Rockingham County Public School system. The Coffman School closed in 1928.

Teachers known to have taught at the Coffman School are:

1882-83 Mollie J. Ross
1884-85 Mittie E. Rucker
1885-86 Mittie E. Rucker
1886-87 J. E. Miller
1887-88 L. A. Gibson
1888-91 (three sessions) Phillip M. Kagey
1891-95 (four sessions) Mittie E. Rucker
1895-1900 (five sessions) Phillip M. Kagey
1900-01 Aurelia Hoover
1901-02 Lena K. Kirtley
1902-03 Pearl M. Showalter
1903-06 (three sessions) Emma V. Fry
1906-07 Thomas O. Comer
1907-12 (five sessions) (unknown)
1912-14 (two sessions) Florence Yates
1914-15 (unknown)
1915-16 McKinley Rodgers
1916-17 Zola Joyner
1917-18 Della Gropp
1918-19 Edna Lineweaver
1919-20 Sallie Whitfield
1920-21 Jessie Coffman
1921-22 (unknown)
1922-25 (three sessions) Mittie E. Rucker
1925-27 (two sessions) Margie Merica
1927-28 Ruth Crist

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