Gordon County School District
Georgia · runs pre-K through grade 12
NCES ID 1302430 · gcbe.org · (706) 629-7366
There is no ZIP Code area where Gordon County is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 8 of them and shares every one, with 7 different districts in total. A lookup that returns a single district name for any of those ZIP Codes is guessing which side of a line an address falls on.
It never has a ZIP Code to itself
The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Gordon 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 boundary16,622
- Residents42,536
- ZIP Code areas it reaches8
- Where it is the only district0
- Where it shares with another district8
- Where it holds under half a percent0
- Land area339 square miles
- Homes per square mile49
The ZIP Code areas it reaches
Every one of the 8 areas where it holds a real share it shares with somebody. Its largest foothold is 30746 at 98% of the homes; the thinnest is 30171, where it holds 13% of the homes.
- ZIP Code 30746 · Gordon County, Georgia98% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30733 · Plainville, Georgia96% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30734 · Ranger, Georgia85% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30139 · Fairmount, Georgia65% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30701 · Calhoun, Georgia61% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30735 · Resaca, Georgia57% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30103 · Adairsville, Georgia19% of the homes
- ZIP Code 30171 · Bartow County, Georgia13% of the homes
What one name misses in the areas it leads
Gordon County is the largest district in 6 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 8,280 of the 23,574 homes those areas hold. That count is computed here from census blocks; the lookups that answer this question with a single name never print it.
Gordon County holds 9,949 of the 16,215 homes in ZIP Code 30701 · Calhoun, Georgia, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 6,266 homes with Calhoun City and Floyd County.
In ZIP Code 30735 · Resaca, Georgia the split runs 1,403 to 1,057 and the larger part is Gordon County's: the rest is 1,057 homes with Whitfield County and Murray County.
ZIP Code 30734 · Ranger, Georgia is a two-district area: 1,394 of its 1,647 homes are inside Gordon County, and the other 253 homes are with Pickens County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.
In ZIP Code 30733 · Plainville, Georgia the split runs 814 to 36 and the larger part is Gordon County's: the rest is 36 homes with Floyd County.
Gordon County reaches into ZIP Code 30103 · Adairsville, Georgia with 1,163 of its 6,042 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Bartow County leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 1,163 homes.
Gordon County reaches into ZIP Code 30171 · Bartow County, Georgia with 165 of its 1,306 homes, behind Bartow County. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 165 homes.
Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes
Gordon 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 — Calhoun City, Bartow County and Pickens County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.
- Calhoun City School District6,113 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
- Bartow County School District5,912 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
- Pickens County School District691 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
- Whitfield County School District594 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
- Floyd County School District508 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
- Murray County School District463 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
Who it shares ZIP Codes with
Gordon County shares ZIP Code areas with 7 different districts. The most frequent are Bartow County, Floyd County, Pickens County and Calhoun City. 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.
- Bartow County School District3 shared ZIP areas
- Floyd County School District3 shared ZIP areas
- Pickens County School District2 shared ZIP areas
- Calhoun City School District1 shared ZIP area
- Murray County School District1 shared ZIP area
- Walker County School District1 shared ZIP area
Gordon County and Bartow County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 30103 · Adairsville, Georgia
- ZIP Code 30139 · Fairmount, Georgia
- ZIP Code 30171 · Bartow County, Georgia
Gordon County and Floyd County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 30103 · Adairsville, Georgia
- ZIP Code 30701 · Calhoun, Georgia
- ZIP Code 30733 · Plainville, Georgia
Gordon County and Pickens County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 30139 · Fairmount, Georgia
- ZIP Code 30734 · Ranger, 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 8 of the 8 ZIP Code areas Gordon 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.