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Suwannee County School District

Florida · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 1201830 · suwannee.k12.fl.us · (386) 647-4600

Suwannee County is the only school district serving 4 of the 9 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 4 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 1. It covers 18,859 homes and 43,474 residents. By homes covered it ranks 45th of the 67 districts in Florida.

Where this district is the answer, and where it is not

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Suwannee County, 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 boundary18,859
  • Residents43,474
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches9
  • Where it is the only district4
  • Where it shares with another district4
  • Where it holds under half a percent1
  • Land area689 square miles
  • Homes per square mile27

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 32060 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 32055 it holds 14 homes, under half a percent. 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 32060 · Live Oak, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 32064 · Live Oak, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 32071 · Suwannee County, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 32062 · Suwannee County, Florida100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 32094 · Suwannee County, Florida93% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 32008 · Branford, Florida44% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 32024 · Lake City, Florida11% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 32096 · White Springs, Florida1.1% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 32055 · Lake City, Florida14 homes, under half a percent

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Suwannee County is the largest district in 6 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 1,744 of the 19,639 homes those areas hold — though in 4 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Suwannee County is the largest name in ZIP Code 32008 · Branford, Florida and still holds a minority of it: 1,321 of 2,973 homes. The other 1,652 homes are with Lafayette County, Gilchrist County and Dixie County. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

ZIP Code 32094 · Suwannee County, Florida is a two-district area: 1,145 of its 1,237 homes are inside Suwannee County, and the other 92 homes are with Columbia County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 32060 · Live Oak, Florida the single-name answer is the true one: Suwannee County holds all 9,101 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

ZIP Code 32062 · Suwannee County, Florida is another area where one name covers everything — 1,163 homes, all of them inside Suwannee County.

Suwannee County reaches into ZIP Code 32024 · Lake City, Florida with 935 of its 8,460 homes, behind Columbia County. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 935 homes.

Suwannee County is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 32096 · White Springs, Florida — Hamilton County leads it — and Suwannee County holds 15 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

Suwannee 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 — Columbia County, Hamilton County and Lafayette County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Columbia County School District15,419 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Hamilton County School District896 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Lafayette County School District800 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Gilchrist County School District685 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Dixie County School District167 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Suwannee County in the same ZIP Code areas: Columbia County, Dixie County, Gilchrist County and Hamilton 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.

  • Columbia County School District3 shared ZIP areas
  • Dixie County School District1 shared ZIP area
  • Gilchrist County School District1 shared ZIP area
  • Hamilton County School District1 shared ZIP area
  • Lafayette County School District1 shared ZIP area

Suwannee County and Columbia County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 32024 · Lake City, Florida
  • ZIP Code 32094 · Suwannee County, Florida
  • ZIP Code 32096 · White Springs, Florida

Suwannee County and Dixie County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 32008 · Branford, Florida

Suwannee County and Gilchrist County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 32008 · Branford, Florida

Have a street address?

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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 4 of the 9 ZIP Code areas Suwannee 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.