Gulf Shores City School District
Alabama · runs pre-K through grade 12
NCES ID 0100202 · gsboe.org · (251) 968-9873
There is no ZIP Code area where Gulf Shores City is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 1 of them and shares every one, with 1 different district 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
12,894 homes hold 13,489 residents, about 1 people each. Where households are small, a district's share of the homes overstates its share of the children, and this page counts homes.
- Homes inside the boundary12,894
- Residents13,489
- ZIP Code areas it reaches4
- Where it is the only district0
- Where it shares with another district1
- Where it holds under half a percent3
- Land area29 square miles
- Homes per square mile450
The ZIP Code areas it reaches
Every one of the 1 area where it holds a real share it shares with somebody. Its largest foothold is 36542 at 73% of the homes; the thinnest is 36547, where it holds no homes at all.
- ZIP Code 36542 · Gulf Shores, Alabama73% of the homes
- ZIP Code 36561 · Orange Beach, Alabama3 homes, under half a percent
- ZIP Code 36535 · Foley, Alabama1 home, under half a percent
- ZIP Code 36547 · Gulf Shores, Alabamano homes at all
What one name misses in the areas it leads
Gulf Shores 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 4,790 of the 17,680 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.
Gulf Shores City holds 12,890 of the 17,680 homes in ZIP Code 36542 · Gulf Shores, Alabama, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 4,790 homes with Baldwin County.
Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes
Gulf Shores 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 — Baldwin County and Orange Beach City. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.
- Baldwin County School District22,693 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
- Orange Beach City School District14,482 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
Who it shares ZIP Codes with
One district shares ZIP Codes with Gulf Shores City: Baldwin County, in 1 of them. For those areas a single-name lookup is choosing between exactly two answers, and it does not tell you it is choosing.
- Baldwin County School District1 shared ZIP area
Gulf Shores City and Baldwin County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 36542 · Gulf Shores, 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 1 of the 4 ZIP Code areas Gulf Shores 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.