Gadsden City School District
Alabama · runs pre-K through grade 12
NCES ID 0101620 · gcs.k12.al.us · (256) 543-3512
There is no ZIP Code area where Gadsden City is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 3 of them and shares every one, with 2 different districts in total. A lookup that returns a single district name for any of those ZIP Codes is guessing which side of a line an address falls on.
It never has a ZIP Code to itself
The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Gadsden 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 boundary16,890
- Residents34,309
- ZIP Code areas it reaches6
- Where it is the only district0
- Where it shares with another district3
- Where it holds under half a percent3
- Land area37 square miles
- Homes per square mile451
The ZIP Code areas it reaches
Every one of the 3 areas where it holds a real share it shares with somebody. Its largest foothold is 35904 at 81% of the homes; the thinnest is 35954, where it holds no homes at all.
- ZIP Code 35904 · Gadsden, Alabama81% of the homes
- ZIP Code 35901 · Gadsden, Alabama75% of the homes
- ZIP Code 35903 · Ballplay, Alabama59% of the homes
- ZIP Code 35906 · Rainbow City, Alabama20 homes, under half a percent
- ZIP Code 35905 · Glencoe, Alabamano homes at all
- ZIP Code 35954 · Attalla, Alabamano homes at all
What one name misses in the areas it leads
Gadsden City is the largest district in 3 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 6,861 of the 23,731 homes those areas hold. That count is computed here from census blocks; the lookups that answer this question with a single name never print it.
Gadsden City holds 4,904 of the 8,255 homes in ZIP Code 35903 · Ballplay, Alabama, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 3,351 homes with Etowah County and Cherokee County.
In ZIP Code 35901 · Gadsden, Alabama the split runs 6,786 to 2,320 and the larger part is Gadsden City's: the rest is 2,293 homes with Etowah County and 27 homes in a district too small to name here.
Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes
Gadsden City runs pre-K 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 — Etowah County, Attalla City and Calhoun County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.
- Etowah County School District16,916 homes in 6 shared ZIP Code areas
- Attalla City School District2,759 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
- Calhoun County School District272 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
- Cherokee County School District47 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
- DeKalb County School District44 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
Who it shares ZIP Codes with
These districts appear alongside Gadsden City in the same ZIP Code areas: Etowah County and Cherokee County. 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.
- Etowah County School District3 shared ZIP areas
- Cherokee County School District1 shared ZIP area
Gadsden City and Etowah County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 35901 · Gadsden, Alabama
- ZIP Code 35903 · Ballplay, Alabama
- ZIP Code 35904 · Gadsden, Alabama
Gadsden City and Cherokee County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 35903 · Ballplay, 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.
Where this district sits
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 3 of the 6 ZIP Code areas Gadsden 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.