Hobgood Elementary

Hobgood Elementary is one of the moderately sized elementary campuss in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, operated by Murfreesboro, with 657 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 40% above the state mean of about 470.

Murfreesboro runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 9,342 students. Hobgood Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Hobgood Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Black (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 20% White, 8% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Rutherford County put median household earnings sit near $85,470, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Rutherford County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,904 students), of which Hobgood Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Homer Pittard Campus School, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Hobgood Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hobgood Elementary has contracted 13%, going from 759 students in 2018 to 657 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 31% to 20% over that span.

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