Athens City School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Athens City, grouped by the ZIP Code area each block falls in. The Census Bureau publishes the blocks; the grouping is computed here, and it is the only place these particular numbers exist.

• Homes inside the boundary11,657
• Residents26,240
• ZIP Code areas it reaches5
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district4
• Where it holds under half a percent1
• Land area42 square miles
• Homes per square mile278

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

Every one of the 4 areas where it holds a real share it shares with somebody. Its largest foothold is 35611 at 61% of the homes; the thinnest is 35756, where it holds 26 homes, under half a percent.

• ZIP Code 35611 · Athens, Alabama61% of the homes
• ZIP Code 35613 · Athens, Alabama36% of the homes
• ZIP Code 35671 · Decatur, Alabama14% of the homes
• ZIP Code 35614 · Athens, Alabama10% of the homes
• ZIP Code 35756 · Huntsville, Alabama26 homes, under half a percent

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Athens City is the largest district in 1 ZIP Code area, and that area is not wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 4,944 of the 12,830 homes that area holds. That count is computed here from census blocks; the lookups that answer this question with a single name never print it.

ZIP Code 35611 · Athens, Alabama is a two-district area: 7,886 of its 12,830 homes are inside Athens City, and the other 4,944 homes are with Limestone County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

Athens City reaches into ZIP Code 35613 · Athens, Alabama with 3,280 of its 9,207 homes, behind Limestone County. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 3,280 homes.

ZIP Code 35614 · Athens, Alabama is another area where Athens City is present without being the answer: 338 of its 3,379 homes, behind Limestone County.

Athens City reaches into ZIP Code 35671 · Decatur, Alabama with 127 of its 917 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Limestone County leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 127 homes.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Athens City runs kindergarten through grade 12 itself, so an address it holds sees no change of authority between grade school and high school. The districts listed below are the ones that take the other homes in the ZIP Code areas it shares — Limestone County, Madison City and Huntsville City. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Limestone County School District16,422 homes in 5 shared ZIP Code areas
• Madison City School District3,616 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Huntsville City School District2,083 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Madison County School District1,224 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Decatur City School District27 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Athens City in the same ZIP Code areas: Limestone County and Decatur City. A single-name lookup for one of those areas has to choose between them, and the choice is right for some addresses and wrong for others.

• Limestone County School District4 shared ZIP areas
• Decatur City School District1 shared ZIP area

Athens City and Limestone County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 35611 · Athens, Alabama
• ZIP Code 35613 · Athens, Alabama
• ZIP Code 35614 · Athens, Alabama
• ZIP Code 35671 · Decatur, Alabama

Athens City and Decatur City school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 35671 · Decatur, Alabama

Have a street address?

A ZIP Code names every district that can serve the area; a street address settles which one serves a home. The Census Bureau geocoder takes an exact address and returns its school districts from the current boundary files, free and with no account.

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Where this district sits

• School districts in Alabama332 of 648 ZIP areas split
• How to find your school district numberNCES ID 0100120

What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address: look on its site for a school locator, a find my school tool or an attendance zone map, or call the office.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: in 4 of the 5 ZIP Code areas Athens City reaches, at least one other district holds a real share of the homes as well, and the line between them runs along streets. Only the district can say which side of that line an address is on.

District websites and phone numbers here come from the NCES Common Core of Data directory, 2024-25 school year, filed under the same district ID as the Census boundary files. Where it lists no usable website, none is printed rather than guessed.

If a house purchase depends on the answer, ask the district itself for written confirmation of that exact address. A listing is not a district record, and neither is this page.

Where these numbers come from

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file, so a fast-growing area may have changed since; ZIP Codes here are the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; a share is a share of homes, not the chance that one address is in a district; and a district is not a school attendance zone. Every source, file and caveat is on the method page.