Snowden Elementary/Middle

As a sizable elementary campus in Memphis, Tennessee, Snowden Elementary/Middle enrolls 1,384 students from grades pre-K through 8, part of Memphis-Shelby County Schools. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 470 students each, so Snowden Elementary/Middle sits 194% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 211 schools in Memphis-Shelby County Schools (111,979 students total), Snowden Elementary/Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Snowden Elementary/Middle logs that 73% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest looks like 10% Hispanic, 9% White, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Shelby County shows median household income runs about $63,767, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Shelby County runs 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students), of which Snowden Elementary/Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Vollentine Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Snowden Elementary/Middle.

Snowden Elementary/Middle operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 1,382 students in 2018 compared to 1,384 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 19% to 9% across the same window.

On the community side, members of the Snowden Elementary/Middle community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.