Phenix City City School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Phenix City 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 boundary16,986
• Residents37,287
• 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 area28 square miles
• Homes per square mile605

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 36867 this district holds 92% of the homes; in 36875 it holds no homes at all. Same district, opposite answers, and a lookup that names it without the share tells the second household the same thing as the first.

• ZIP Code 36867 · Phenix City, Alabama92% of the homes
• ZIP Code 36869 · Phenix City, Alabama58% of the homes
• ZIP Code 36870 · Phenix City, Alabama13% of the homes
• ZIP Code 36877 · Smiths Station, Alabama8.8% of the homes
• ZIP Code 36875 · Phenix City, Alabamano homes at all

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Phenix City City is the largest district in 2 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 4,983 of the 20,495 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.

ZIP Code 36869 · Phenix City, Alabama is a two-district area: 5,630 of its 9,701 homes are inside Phenix City City, and the other 4,071 homes are with Russell County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

Phenix City City holds 9,882 of the 10,794 homes in ZIP Code 36867 · Phenix City, Alabama, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 896 homes with Lee County and 16 homes in a district too small to name here.

Phenix City City reaches into ZIP Code 36870 · Phenix City, Alabama with 1,015 of its 7,650 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Lee County leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 1,015 homes.

Phenix City City is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 36877 · Smiths Station, Alabama — Lee County leads it — and Phenix City City holds 459 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Phenix City 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 — Lee County and Russell County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Lee County School District10,900 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Russell County School District7,554 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Phenix City City in the same ZIP Code areas: Lee County and Russell 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.

• Lee County School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Russell County School District2 shared ZIP areas

Phenix City City and Lee County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 36867 · Phenix City, Alabama
• ZIP Code 36870 · Phenix City, Alabama
• ZIP Code 36877 · Smiths Station, Alabama

Phenix City City and Russell County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 36869 · Phenix City, Alabama
• ZIP Code 36870 · Phenix City, 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 0102700

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 Phenix City 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.