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Atlanta City School District

Georgia · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 1300120 · (404) 802-3500

Atlanta City is the only school district serving 14 of the 33 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 15 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 4. It covers 259,507 homes and 500,326 residents. By homes covered it ranks 4th of the 184 districts in Georgia.

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

At 1,919 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Atlanta City covers 135 square miles in all — small enough that a single ZIP Code area can hold most of it, and several ZIP Codes can cut across it.

  • Homes inside the boundary259,507
  • Residents500,326
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches33
  • Where it is the only district14
  • Where it shares with another district15
  • Where it holds under half a percent4
  • Land area135 square miles
  • Homes per square mile1,919

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 30318 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 30339 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 30318 · Atlanta, Georgia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30309 · Atlanta, Georgia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30305 · Atlanta, Georgia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30308 · Atlanta, Georgia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30312 · Atlanta, Georgia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30314 · Atlanta, Georgia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30326 · Atlanta, Georgia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30313 · Atlanta, Georgia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30363 · Atlanta, Georgia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30303 · Atlanta, Georgia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30332 · Atlanta, Georgia13 of 13 homes
  • ZIP Code 30334 · Atlanta, Georgia6 of 6 homes
  • ZIP Code 30310 · Atlanta, Georgia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30315 · Atlanta, Georgia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30311 · Atlanta, Georgia95% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30322 · Atlanta, Georgia15 of 16 homes
  • ZIP Code 30317 · Atlanta, Georgia90% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30307 · Atlanta, Georgia86% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30324 · Atlanta, Georgia86% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30306 · Atlanta, Georgia82% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30327 · Atlanta, Georgia75% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30331 · South Fulton, Georgia62% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30354 · Atlanta, Georgia59% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30316 · Atlanta, Georgia51% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30342 · Sandy Springs, Georgia32% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30319 · Brookhaven, Georgia13% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30344 · East Point, Georgia9.0% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30329 · North Druid Hills, Georgia8.8% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30032 · Candler-McAfee, Georgia1.2% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30349 · South Fulton, Georgia22 homes, under half a percent
  • ZIP Code 30033 · North Decatur, Georgia5 homes, under half a percent
  • ZIP Code 30336 · South Fulton, Georgiano homes at all
  • ZIP Code 30339 · Vinings, Georgiano homes at all

What an answer of one district name misses here

Atlanta City is the largest district in 24 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 31,565 of the 280,513 homes those areas hold — though in 12 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

ZIP Code 30331 · South Fulton, Georgia is a two-district area: 16,495 of its 26,426 homes are inside Atlanta City, and the other 9,931 homes are with Fulton County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 30316 · Atlanta, Georgia the split runs 8,720 to 8,228 and the larger part is Atlanta City's: the rest is 8,228 homes with DeKalb County.

Atlanta City holds 4,340 of the 7,297 homes in ZIP Code 30354 · Atlanta, Georgia, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 2,945 homes with Fulton County and 12 homes in a district too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 30307 · Atlanta, Georgia the split runs 9,284 to 1,455 and the larger part is Atlanta City's: the rest is 1,455 homes with DeKalb County.

In ZIP Code 30303 · Atlanta, Georgia the single-name answer is the true one: Atlanta City holds all 1,696 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

Atlanta City reaches into ZIP Code 30342 · Sandy Springs, Georgia with 4,707 of its 14,941 homes, behind Fulton County. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 4,707 homes.

Atlanta City reaches into ZIP Code 30319 · Brookhaven, Georgia with 2,786 of its 21,556 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and DeKalb County leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 2,786 homes.

Atlanta City is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 30344 · East Point, Georgia — Fulton County leads it — and Atlanta City holds 1,510 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

Atlanta 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 — DeKalb County, Fulton County and Cobb County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Atlanta City in the same ZIP Code areas: DeKalb County and Fulton 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.

Atlanta City and DeKalb County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 30032 · Candler-McAfee, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30306 · Atlanta, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30307 · Atlanta, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30316 · Atlanta, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30317 · Atlanta, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30319 · Brookhaven, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30322 · Atlanta, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30324 · Atlanta, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30329 · North Druid Hills, Georgia

Atlanta City and Fulton County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 30311 · Atlanta, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30319 · Brookhaven, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30327 · Atlanta, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30331 · South Fulton, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30342 · Sandy Springs, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30344 · East Point, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30354 · Atlanta, Georgia

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 15 of the 33 ZIP Code areas Atlanta 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.