Fulton County School District
Georgia · runs pre-K through grade 12
NCES ID 1302280 · (404) 763-6890
Fulton County is the only school district serving 9 of the 35 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 19 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 7. It covers 253,848 homes and 610,143 residents. By homes covered it ranks 5th 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 Fulton 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 boundary253,848
- Residents610,143
- ZIP Code areas it reaches35
- Where it is the only district9
- Where it shares with another district19
- Where it holds under half a percent7
- Land area400 square miles
- Homes per square mile634
The ZIP Code areas it reaches
The spread is the thing to notice. In 30022 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 30168 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 30022 · Johns Creek, Georgia100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30328 · Sandy Springs, Georgia100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30076 · Roswell, Georgia100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30291 · Union City, Georgia100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30009 · Alpharetta, Georgia100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30337 · College Park, Georgia100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30336 · South Fulton, Georgia100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30272 · South Fulton, Georgia9 of 9 homes
- ZIP Code 30213 · South Fulton, Georgia100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30350 · Sandy Springs, Georgia99% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30344 · East Point, Georgia91% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30075 · Roswell, Georgia82% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30268 · Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia79% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30005 · Alpharetta, Georgia78% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30004 · Milton, Georgia75% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30349 · South Fulton, Georgia69% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30342 · Sandy Springs, Georgia68% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30097 · Johns Creek, Georgia47% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30354 · Atlanta, Georgia40% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30331 · South Fulton, Georgia38% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30327 · Atlanta, Georgia25% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30296 · South Fulton, Georgia17% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30311 · Atlanta, Georgia4.8% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30338 · Dunwoody, Georgia3.6% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30024 · Suwanee, Georgia2.9% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30339 · Vinings, Georgia2.7% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30319 · Brookhaven, Georgia2.5% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30092 · Peachtree Corners, Georgia1.9% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30068 · Marietta, Georgia65 homes, under half a percent
- ZIP Code 30360 · Dunwoody, Georgia17 homes, under half a percent
- ZIP Code 30315 · Atlanta, Georgia15 homes, under half a percent
- ZIP Code 30214 · Fayetteville, Georgia3 homes, under half a percent
- ZIP Code 30310 · Atlanta, Georgia2 homes, under half a percent
- ZIP Code 30067 · Marietta, Georgiano homes at all
- ZIP Code 30168 · Mableton, Georgiano homes at all
What an answer of one district name misses here
Fulton County is the largest district in 17 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 31,113 of the 255,291 homes those areas hold — though in 8 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.
Fulton County holds 23,135 of the 33,698 homes in ZIP Code 30349 · South Fulton, Georgia, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 10,541 homes with Clayton County and 22 homes in a district too small to name here.
In ZIP Code 30004 · Milton, Georgia the split runs 18,677 to 6,201 and the larger part is Fulton County's: the rest is 6,201 homes with Forsyth County and Cherokee County.
ZIP Code 30342 · Sandy Springs, Georgia is a two-district area: 10,234 of its 14,941 homes are inside Fulton County, and the other 4,707 homes are with Atlanta City. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.
In ZIP Code 30005 · Alpharetta, Georgia the split runs 11,293 to 3,188 and the larger part is Fulton County's: the rest is 3,188 homes with Forsyth County.
In ZIP Code 30009 · Alpharetta, Georgia the single-name answer is the true one: Fulton County holds all 8,639 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.
Fulton County reaches into ZIP Code 30331 · South Fulton, Georgia with 9,931 of its 26,426 homes, behind Atlanta City. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 9,931 homes.
Fulton County reaches into ZIP Code 30097 · Johns Creek, Georgia with 8,718 of its 18,583 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Gwinnett County leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 8,718 homes.
ZIP Code 30354 · Atlanta, Georgia is close to being two districts in equal parts: Fulton County holds 2,945 of its 7,297 homes and Atlanta City leads the rest. A lookup that picks the larger name is making a coin-toss look like a fact.
Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes
Fulton 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 — Atlanta City, Cobb County and Gwinnett County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.
- Atlanta City School District81,732 homes in 9 shared ZIP Code areas
- Cobb County School District60,297 homes in 5 shared ZIP Code areas
- Gwinnett County School District44,967 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
- DeKalb County School District39,034 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
- Clayton County School District19,107 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
- Forsyth County School District17,521 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
Who it shares ZIP Codes with
Fulton County shares ZIP Code areas with 8 different districts. The most frequent are Atlanta City, Forsyth County, DeKalb County and Gwinnett 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.
- Atlanta City School District7 shared ZIP areas
- Forsyth County School District4 shared ZIP areas
- DeKalb County School District3 shared ZIP areas
- Gwinnett County School District3 shared ZIP areas
- Cherokee County School District2 shared ZIP areas
- Clayton County School District2 shared ZIP areas
Fulton County and Atlanta City 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
Fulton County and Forsyth County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 30004 · Milton, Georgia
- ZIP Code 30005 · Alpharetta, Georgia
- ZIP Code 30024 · Suwanee, Georgia
- ZIP Code 30097 · Johns Creek, Georgia
Fulton County and DeKalb County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 30319 · Brookhaven, Georgia
- ZIP Code 30338 · Dunwoody, Georgia
- ZIP Code 30350 · Sandy Springs, 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.
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 19 of the 35 ZIP Code areas Fulton 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.