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Springfield School District 186

Illinois · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 1737080 · sps186.org · (217) 525-3002

Springfield School District 186 is the only school district serving 1 of the 9 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 6 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 2. It covers 56,680 homes and 109,217 residents. By homes covered it ranks 9th of the 862 districts in Illinois.

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

At 932 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Springfield School District 186 covers 61 square miles in all — small enough that a single ZIP Code area can hold most of it, and several ZIP Codes can cut across it.

  • Homes inside the boundary56,680
  • Residents109,217
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches9
  • Where it is the only district1
  • Where it shares with another district6
  • Where it holds under half a percent2
  • Land area61 square miles
  • Homes per square mile932

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 62701 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 62706 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 62701 · Springfield, Illinois100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 62702 · Springfield, Illinois99% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 62704 · Springfield, Illinois98% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 62703 · Springfield, Illinois91% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 62711 · Springfield, Illinois45% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 62707 · Springfield, Illinois43% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 62712 · Springfield, Illinois11% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 62625 · Cantrall, Illinoisno homes at all
  • ZIP Code 62706 · Springfield, Illinoisno homes at all

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Springfield School District 186 is the largest district in 6 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 8,281 of the 64,474 homes those areas hold — though in 1 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Springfield School District 186 is the largest name in ZIP Code 62711 · Springfield, Illinois and still holds a minority of it: 3,620 of 8,069 homes. The other 4,449 homes are with Pleasant Plains Community Unit School District 8, Ball-Chatham Community Unit School District 5 and New Berlin CUSD 16. 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 62707 · Springfield, Illinois repeats the pattern with 6 names holding a real share: 1,445 of its 3,372 homes are Springfield School District 186's, and the other 1,927 are not.

ZIP Code 62703 · Springfield, Illinois is a two-district area: 12,603 of its 13,856 homes are inside Springfield School District 186, and the other 1,253 homes are with Ball-Chatham Community Unit School District 5. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 62704 · Springfield, Illinois the split runs 20,212 to 435 and the larger part is Springfield School District 186's: the rest is 435 homes with Ball-Chatham Community Unit School District 5.

In ZIP Code 62701 · Springfield, Illinois the single-name answer is the true one: Springfield School District 186 holds all 983 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

Springfield School District 186 reaches into ZIP Code 62712 · Springfield, Illinois with 487 of its 4,504 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Ball-Chatham Community Unit School District 5 leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 487 homes.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Springfield School District 186 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 — Ball-Chatham Community Unit School District 5, Pleasant Plains Community Unit School District 8 and Rochester Community Unit School District 3A. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Ball-Chatham Community Unit School District 55,491 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Pleasant Plains Community Unit School District 82,178 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Rochester Community Unit School District 3A1,904 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Riverton Community Unit School District 141,292 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • New Berlin CUSD 16887 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Athens Community Unit School District 213661 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Springfield School District 186 shares ZIP Code areas with 7 different districts. The most frequent are Ball-Chatham Community Unit School District 5, Pleasant Plains Community Unit School District 8, Riverton Community Unit School District 14 and Rochester Community Unit School District 3A. 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.

  • Ball-Chatham Community Unit School District 54 shared ZIP areas
  • Pleasant Plains Community Unit School District 82 shared ZIP areas
  • Riverton Community Unit School District 142 shared ZIP areas
  • Rochester Community Unit School District 3A2 shared ZIP areas
  • Athens Community Unit School District 2131 shared ZIP area
  • New Berlin CUSD 161 shared ZIP area

Springfield School District 186 and Ball-Chatham Community Unit School District 5 school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 62703 · Springfield, Illinois
  • ZIP Code 62704 · Springfield, Illinois
  • ZIP Code 62711 · Springfield, Illinois
  • ZIP Code 62712 · Springfield, Illinois

Springfield School District 186 and Pleasant Plains Community Unit School District 8 school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 62707 · Springfield, Illinois
  • ZIP Code 62711 · Springfield, Illinois

Springfield School District 186 and Riverton Community Unit School District 14 school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 62702 · Springfield, Illinois
  • ZIP Code 62707 · Springfield, Illinois

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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 6 of the 9 ZIP Code areas Springfield School District 186 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.