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Lawrence Township Metropolitan School District

Indiana · runs pre-K through grade 12

Lawrence Township Metropolitan is the only school district serving 2 of the 7 ZIP Code areas it touches, and shares the other 5 with neighbors. It covers 43,299 homes and 99,059 residents. By homes covered it ranks 10th of the 290 districts in Indiana. At 1,027 homes to the square mile it is one of the dense ones; district lines in that kind of territory follow streets rather than county roads.

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

At 1,027 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Lawrence Township Metropolitan covers 42 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 boundary43,299
  • Residents99,059
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches7
  • Where it is the only district2
  • Where it shares with another district5
  • Where it holds under half a percent0
  • Land area42 square miles
  • Homes per square mile1,027

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 46216 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 46220 it holds 7.8% 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 46216 · Lawrence, Indiana100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 46236 · Lawrence, Indiana100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 46256 · Indianapolis city, Indiana96% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 46250 · Indianapolis city, Indiana49% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 46235 · Indianapolis city, Indiana47% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 46226 · Indianapolis city, Indiana42% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 46220 · Indianapolis city, Indiana7.8% of the homes

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Lawrence Township Metropolitan is the largest district in 4 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 7,802 of the 36,398 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.

Lawrence Township Metropolitan is the largest name in ZIP Code 46235 · Indianapolis city, Indiana and still holds a minority of it: 6,447 of 13,782 homes. The other 7,335 homes are with Indianapolis and Warren Township Metropolitan. 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 46256 · Indianapolis city, Indiana is a two-district area: 10,101 of its 10,560 homes are inside Lawrence Township Metropolitan, and the other 459 homes are with Hamilton Southeastern Schools. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

Lawrence Township Metropolitan holds 10,608 of the 10,616 homes in ZIP Code 46236 · Lawrence, Indiana, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 8 homes in districts too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 46216 · Lawrence, Indiana the single-name answer is the true one: Lawrence Township Metropolitan holds all 1,440 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

In ZIP Code 46226 · Indianapolis city, Indiana this district is one name among 4. Indianapolis leads with the largest share and Lawrence Township Metropolitan holds 8,212 of the 19,601 homes counted there; no single name describes that area at all.

Lawrence Township Metropolitan reaches into ZIP Code 46250 · Indianapolis city, Indiana with 5,066 of its 10,377 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Washington Township Metropolitan leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 5,066 homes.

Lawrence Township Metropolitan is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 46220 · Indianapolis city, Indiana — Indianapolis leads it — and Lawrence Township Metropolitan holds 1,425 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Lawrence Township Metropolitan 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 — Indianapolis, Washington Township Metropolitan and Warren Township Metropolitan. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Lawrence Township Metropolitan in the same ZIP Code areas: Indianapolis, Washington Township Metropolitan, Hamilton Southeastern Schools and Warren Township Metropolitan. A single-name lookup for one of those areas has to choose between them, and the choice is right for some addresses and wrong for others.

Where this district sits

What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address. A district settles that question on its own site: look for a school locator, a find my school tool, or an attendance zone map. Where there is none, ask the office itself.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: in 5 of the 7 ZIP Code areas Lawrence Township Metropolitan 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.

This site links to no district website. None of the federal files it is built from publishes one, and a guessed address is worse than none. It is the district office, not a search engine, that settles an address.

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.

What this cannot tell you

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file. Nothing on this page adjusts one to the other. Where houses have been built or cleared since the count, a share here describes the place as it was counted rather than as it stands today, and in the fastest-growing ZIP Code areas that gap is the largest single source of error on this site.

A share on this page is a share of the homes in the ZIP Code area, not a probability for any particular address. Enrollment is decided by street address, and a district may run magnet, charter or choice programs that ignore the boundary entirely. If a decision depends on the answer, the district office is the only authority; this page shows what the federal boundary files say and when they were published.

A district boundary is not a school attendance zone. This site never says which school an address is assigned to: no current national dataset of attendance zones exists, and the district draws them itself. Nor is anything here endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau; we use their published files, and that is the whole of the relationship.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not an area. What is mapped here is the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Area, the closest published approximation to it. The two are not identical, and a handful of ZIP Codes used only for post office boxes or single buildings have no tabulation area at all.

Where these numbers come from

School district boundaries come from the Census Bureau's Census Geographic Relationship File, current 2026 vintage, which assigns every census block to a unified district or to an elementary and a secondary district. Homes and residents in each block come from the 2020 Census Redistricting Data (PL 94-171), H1_001 and P1_001. The ZIP Code areas come from the same Geographic Relationship File, block to ZIP Code Tabulation Area. District names and grade ranges come from the Census Gazetteer 2025, with 2020 for districts no longer listed.

The place name printed beside a ZIP Code comes from the Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Area relationship files: place, county subdivision and county, taken 2026-09-06. It is a label rather than a measurement: the Census Bureau does not publish which post office a ZIP Code belongs to, so the place named is the one covering the most land inside the area, not the city the Postal Service prints on an envelope.

Everything else on this page — the shares, the counts of districts per ZIP, the comparison between the two grade bands, the rankings — is computed here from those files. The source publishes none of it. Snapshot taken 2026-09-03.