Marshalltown Community School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Marshalltown 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 boundary12,533
• Residents30,379
• ZIP Code areas it reaches6
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district6
• Where it holds under half a percent0
• Land area141 square miles
• Homes per square mile89

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 50158 this district holds 93% of the homes; in 50141 it holds 1.2% of the homes. 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 50158 · Marshalltown, Iowa93% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50005 · Albion, Iowa91% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50120 · Haverhill, Iowa90% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50162 · Melbourne, Iowa14% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50148 · Liscomb, Iowa2.3% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50141 · Laurel, Iowa1.2% of the homes

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Marshalltown Community is the largest district in 3 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 957 of the 13,412 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.

Marshalltown Community is one of 5 districts the file names for ZIP Code 50158 · Marshalltown, Iowa at that level. It holds 12,068 of the 12,984 homes there; the rest is 876 homes with East Marshall Community, GMG Community and West Marshall Community; 40 homes in a district too small to name here. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 916 of the homes in it.

Marshalltown Community holds 274 of the 302 homes in ZIP Code 50005 · Albion, Iowa, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 27 homes with West Marshall Community and 1 home in a district too small to name here.

ZIP Code 50120 · Haverhill, Iowa is a two-district area: 113 of its 126 homes are inside Marshalltown Community, and the other 13 homes are with East Marshall Community. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

Marshalltown Community reaches into ZIP Code 50162 · Melbourne, Iowa with 71 of its 493 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and West Marshall Community leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 71 homes.

Marshalltown Community is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 50148 · Liscomb, Iowa — BCLUW Community leads it — and Marshalltown Community holds 4 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 50141 · Laurel, Iowa is another area where Marshalltown Community is present without being the answer: 3 of its 249 homes, behind East Marshall Community.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Marshalltown 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 — East Marshall Community, West Marshall Community and GMG Community. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• East Marshall Community School District729 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• West Marshall Community School District533 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• GMG Community School District300 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• BCLUW Community School District170 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Newton Community School District14 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Baxter Community School District8 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Marshalltown Community shares ZIP Code areas with 6 different districts. The most frequent are East Marshall Community, West Marshall Community, GMG Community and Baxter 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.

• East Marshall Community School District3 shared ZIP areas
• West Marshall Community School District3 shared ZIP areas
• GMG Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• Baxter Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• BCLUW Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• Newton Community School District1 shared ZIP area

Marshalltown Community and East Marshall Community school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 50120 · Haverhill, Iowa
• ZIP Code 50141 · Laurel, Iowa
• ZIP Code 50158 · Marshalltown, Iowa

Marshalltown Community and West Marshall Community school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 50005 · Albion, Iowa
• ZIP Code 50158 · Marshalltown, Iowa
• ZIP Code 50162 · Melbourne, Iowa

Marshalltown Community and GMG Community school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 50158 · Marshalltown, 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 1918720

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 6 of the 6 ZIP Code areas Marshalltown 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.