Snow Rogers Elementary School

Snow Rogers Elementary School, a compact elementary school in Gardendale, Alabama, operated by Jefferson County, enrolls 389 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Jefferson County comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 35,444 students; Snow Rogers Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Snow Rogers Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment; the rest looks like 15% Black, 7% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Snow Rogers Elementary School has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Jefferson County (around 52%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Snow Rogers Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.9%, the actual is 58.1%, a residual of +1.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,388 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Jefferson County runs 181 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,401 students), of which Snow Rogers Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Gardendale Elementary School, roughly 3.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Snow Rogers Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Snow Rogers Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 87%: 208 students in 2018 compared to 389 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 85% to 74%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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