Dallas Center-Grimes Community School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Dallas Center-Grimes Community, 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 boundary6,055
• Residents15,744
• ZIP Code areas it reaches8
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district4
• Where it holds under half a percent4
• Land area79 square miles
• Homes per square mile77

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 50063 this district holds 94% of the homes; in 50322 it holds 2 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 50063 · Dallas Center, Iowa94% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50111 · Grimes, Iowa79% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50167 · Minburn, Iowa2.2% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50003 · Adel, Iowa0.7% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50276 · Woodward, Iowa4 homes, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 50263 · Waukee, Iowa13 homes, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 50323 · Urbandale, Iowa1 home, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 50322 · Urbandale, Iowa2 homes, under half a percent

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Dallas Center-Grimes Community is the largest district in 2 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 1,405 of the 7,408 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.

Dallas Center-Grimes Community holds 4,922 of the 6,260 homes in ZIP Code 50111 · Grimes, Iowa, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 1,314 homes with Johnston Community and 24 homes in districts too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 50063 · Dallas Center, Iowa the split runs 1,081 to 67 and the larger part is Dallas Center-Grimes Community's: the rest is 67 homes with Woodward-Granger Community and Waukee Community.

Dallas Center-Grimes Community is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 50003 · Adel, Iowa — Adel-De Soto-Minburn Community leads it — and Dallas Center-Grimes Community holds 25 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 50167 · Minburn, Iowa is another area where Dallas Center-Grimes Community is present without being the answer: 7 of its 313 homes, behind Adel-De Soto-Minburn Community.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Dallas Center-Grimes Community 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 — Waukee Community, Urbandale Community and Johnston Community. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Waukee Community School District14,037 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Urbandale Community School District9,216 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Johnston Community School District3,882 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Adel-De Soto-Minburn Community School District3,453 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• West Des Moines Community School District2,255 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Des Moines Independent Community School District1,525 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Dallas Center-Grimes Community shares ZIP Code areas with 8 different districts. The most frequent are Adel-De Soto-Minburn Community, Earlham Community, Johnston Community and Perry Community. 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.

• Adel-De Soto-Minburn Community School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Earlham Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• Johnston Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• Perry Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• West Central Valley Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• Van Meter Community School District1 shared ZIP area

Dallas Center-Grimes Community and Adel-De Soto-Minburn Community school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 50003 · Adel, Iowa
• ZIP Code 50167 · Minburn, Iowa

Dallas Center-Grimes Community and Earlham Community school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 50003 · Adel, Iowa

Dallas Center-Grimes Community and Johnston Community school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 50111 · Grimes, Iowa

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

• School districts in Iowa678 of 969 ZIP areas split
• How to find your school district numberNCES ID 1908520

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 8 ZIP Code areas Dallas Center-Grimes Community 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.