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Clayton County School District

Georgia · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 1301230 · clayton.k12.ga.us · (770) 473-2700

Clayton County is the only school district serving 3 of the 16 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 10 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 3. It covers 113,994 homes and 297,467 residents. By homes covered it ranks 7th of the 184 districts in Georgia.

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

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Clayton 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 boundary113,994
  • Residents297,467
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches16
  • Where it is the only district3
  • Where it shares with another district10
  • Where it holds under half a percent3
  • Land area142 square miles
  • Homes per square mile804

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 30274 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 30337 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 30274 · Riverdale, Georgia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30297 · Forest Park, Georgia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30260 · Morrow, Georgia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30238 · Irondale, Georgia98% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30273 · Clayton County, Georgia95% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30236 · Jonesboro, Georgia94% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30296 · South Fulton, Georgia83% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30288 · Conley, Georgia58% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30228 · Hampton, Georgia48% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30294 · Forest Park, Georgia34% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30349 · South Fulton, Georgia31% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30281 · Stockbridge, Georgia10% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30215 · Fayetteville, Georgia10% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 30354 · Atlanta, Georgia12 homes, under half a percent
  • ZIP Code 30250 · Lovejoy, Georgiano homes at all
  • ZIP Code 30337 · College Park, Georgiano homes at all

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Clayton County is the largest district in 9 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 14,171 of the 108,203 homes those areas hold — though in 3 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Clayton County is the largest name in ZIP Code 30228 · Hampton, Georgia and still holds a minority of it: 8,702 of 18,004 homes. The other 9,302 homes are with Henry County and Spalding 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 30296 · South Fulton, Georgia is a two-district area: 8,566 of its 10,382 homes are inside Clayton County, and the other 1,816 homes are with Fulton County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 30288 · Conley, Georgia the split runs 1,800 to 1,301 and the larger part is Clayton County's: the rest is 1,301 homes with DeKalb County.

In ZIP Code 30260 · Morrow, Georgia the single-name answer is the true one: Clayton County holds all 10,714 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

ZIP Code 30274 · Riverdale, Georgia is another area where one name covers everything — 13,481 homes, all of them inside Clayton County.

Clayton County reaches into ZIP Code 30349 · South Fulton, Georgia with 10,541 of its 33,698 homes, behind Fulton County. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 10,541 homes.

Clayton County reaches into ZIP Code 30294 · Forest Park, Georgia with 5,291 of its 15,395 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 5,291 homes.

ZIP Code 30281 · Stockbridge, Georgia is another area where Clayton County is present without being the answer: 2,764 of its 27,003 homes, behind Henry County.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Clayton 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 — Henry County, Fulton County and Fayette County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Clayton County shares ZIP Code areas with 6 different districts. The most frequent are Henry County, DeKalb County, Fayette County and Fulton 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.

Clayton County and Henry County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 30228 · Hampton, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30236 · Jonesboro, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30273 · Clayton County, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30281 · Stockbridge, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30294 · Forest Park, Georgia

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

  • ZIP Code 30288 · Conley, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30294 · Forest Park, Georgia

Clayton County and Fayette County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 30215 · Fayetteville, Georgia
  • ZIP Code 30238 · Irondale, Georgia

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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 10 of the 16 ZIP Code areas Clayton 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.