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Benton School District

Arkansas · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 0502960 · bentonschools.org · (501) 778-4861

There is no ZIP Code area where Benton is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 5 of them and shares every one, with 10 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 Benton, 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 boundary12,929
  • Residents30,532
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches6
  • Where it is the only district0
  • Where it shares with another district5
  • Where it holds under half a percent1
  • Land area105 square miles
  • Homes per square mile123

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

Every one of the 5 areas where it holds a real share it shares with somebody. Its largest foothold is 72015 at 57% of the homes; the thinnest is 71901, where it holds 51 homes, under half a percent.

  • ZIP Code 72015 · Benton, Arkansas57% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 72019 · Benton, Arkansas51% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 72087 · Hot Springs Village, Arkansas27% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 72011 · Bauxite, Arkansas2.7% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 72104 · Malvern, Arkansas1.1% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 71901 · Hot Springs, Arkansas51 homes, under half a percent

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Benton 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 10,738 of the 23,281 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.

Benton is one of 5 districts the file names for ZIP Code 72019 · Benton, Arkansas at that level. It holds 5,912 of the 11,571 homes there; the rest is 5,659 homes with Bryant, Harmony Grove, Glen Rose and one more district. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 5,659 of the homes in it.

ZIP Code 72015 · Benton, Arkansas repeats the pattern with 5 names holding a real share: 6,631 of its 11,710 homes are Benton's, and the other 5,079 are not.

Benton reaches into ZIP Code 72087 · Hot Springs Village, Arkansas with 180 of its 658 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Fountain Lake leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 180 homes.

Benton is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 72104 · Malvern, Arkansas — Malvern Special leads it — and Benton holds 106 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 72011 · Bauxite, Arkansas is another area where Benton is present without being the answer: 49 of its 1,797 homes, behind Bauxite.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Benton 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 — Bryant, Malvern Special and Hot Springs. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Bryant Public Schools7,124 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Malvern Special School District6,686 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Hot Springs School District6,535 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Lakeside School District5,140 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Bauxite School District2,802 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Harmony Grove School District2,056 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Benton shares ZIP Code areas with 10 different districts. The most frequent are Bryant, Glen Rose, Bauxite and Fountain Lake. In a neighborhood this crowded the question is not which district serves the ZIP Code but which side of which street an address is on.

  • Bryant Public Schools3 shared ZIP areas
  • Glen Rose School District3 shared ZIP areas
  • Bauxite School District2 shared ZIP areas
  • Fountain Lake School District2 shared ZIP areas
  • Harmony Grove School District2 shared ZIP areas
  • Magnet Cove School District2 shared ZIP areas

Benton and Bryant school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 72011 · Bauxite, Arkansas
  • ZIP Code 72015 · Benton, Arkansas
  • ZIP Code 72019 · Benton, Arkansas

Benton and Glen Rose school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 72015 · Benton, Arkansas
  • ZIP Code 72019 · Benton, Arkansas
  • ZIP Code 72104 · Malvern, Arkansas

Benton and Bauxite school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 72011 · Bauxite, Arkansas
  • ZIP Code 72015 · Benton, Arkansas

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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 5 of the 6 ZIP Code areas Benton 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.