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Polk County School District

Florida · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 1201590 · polk-fl.net · (863) 534-0500

Polk County covers 316,479 of the homes in 45 ZIP Code areas, but its smallest measured presence is a different thing entirely: in ZIP Code area 33825 it holds 99 of 12,463 homes, or 0.8% of them. An address in that ZIP Code is almost certainly not in this district, and a lookup that names the district without the share says the opposite.

A few homes at the edge of someone else's ZIP Code

Polk County covers 1,798 square miles, and the ZIP Code areas inside it are small by comparison. Its 316,479 homes are spread thinly enough that the postal map and the school map have little reason to agree anywhere.

  • Homes inside the boundary316,479
  • Residents725,303
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches45
  • Where it is the only district36
  • Where it shares with another district9
  • Where it holds under half a percent0
  • Land area1,798 square miles
  • Homes per square mile176

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 33844 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 33825 it holds 0.8% of the homes. 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 33844 · Haines City, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33881 · Winter Haven, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33880 · Jan Phyl Village, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33837 · Davenport, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33884 · Winter Haven, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33801 · Lakeland, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33803 · Lakeland, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33813 · Lakeland Highlands, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33823 · Auburndale, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33830 · Bartow, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33805 · Lakeland, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33811 · Lakeland, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33860 · Mulberry, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33815 · Lakeland, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33843 · Frostproof, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33812 · Highland City, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33859 · Alturas, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33853 · Lake Wales, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33868 · Polk City, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33850 · Lake Alfred, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33841 · Alturas, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33838 · Dundee, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33839 · Eagle Lake, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33827 · Frostproof, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33854 · Polk County, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33856 · Polk County, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33851 · Lake Hamilton, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33867 · Polk County, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33877 · Waverly, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33847 · Homeland, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33840 · Polk County, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33855 · Indian Lake Estates, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33858 · Loughman, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33835 · Bradley Junction, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33809 · Lakeland, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33898 · Indian Lake Estates, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33810 · Kathleen, Florida99% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33897 · Four Corners, Florida97% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33849 · Polk County, Florida92% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34759 · Poinciana, Florida86% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33896 · Poinciana, Florida63% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 34714 · Four Corners, Florida5.2% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33834 · Fort Green Springs, Florida3.8% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33547 · Fish Hawk, Florida1.5% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 33825 · Avon Park, Florida0.8% of the homes

What an answer of one district name misses here

Polk County is the largest district in 41 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 7,106 of the 322,644 homes those areas hold — though in 34 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

ZIP Code 33896 · Poinciana, Florida is a two-district area: 6,905 of its 10,998 homes are inside Polk County, and the other 4,093 homes are with Osceola County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 34759 · Poinciana, Florida the split runs 13,960 to 2,355 and the larger part is Polk County's: the rest is 2,355 homes with Osceola County.

In ZIP Code 33801 · Lakeland, Florida the single-name answer is the true one: Polk County holds all 15,325 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

ZIP Code 33803 · Lakeland, Florida is another area where one name covers everything — 14,412 homes, all of them inside Polk County.

Polk County is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 34714 · Four Corners, Florida — Lake County leads it — and Polk County holds 612 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 33547 · Fish Hawk, Florida is another area where Polk County is present without being the answer: 144 of its 9,910 homes, behind Hillsborough County.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Polk County 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 — Highlands County, Lake County and Hillsborough County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Polk County shares ZIP Code areas with 6 different districts. The most frequent are Osceola County, Hillsborough County, Hardee County and Highlands County. 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.

Polk County and Osceola County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 33896 · Poinciana, Florida
  • ZIP Code 33897 · Four Corners, Florida
  • ZIP Code 34759 · Poinciana, Florida

Polk County and Hillsborough County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 33547 · Fish Hawk, Florida
  • ZIP Code 33810 · Kathleen, Florida

Polk County and Hardee County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 33834 · Fort Green Springs, Florida

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

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 9 of the 45 ZIP Code areas Polk County 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.