Lawrence Township Metropolitan School District

Indiana · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 1805670 · ltschools.org · (317) 423-8200

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.

Indianapolis Public Schools25,002 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
Washington Township Metropolitan School District13,090 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
Warren Township Metropolitan School District2,576 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
Hamilton Southeastern Schools617 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas

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.

Indianapolis Public Schools3 shared ZIP areas
Washington Township Metropolitan School District3 shared ZIP areas
Hamilton Southeastern Schools2 shared ZIP areas
Warren Township Metropolitan School District2 shared ZIP areas

Lawrence Township Metropolitan and Indianapolis school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

ZIP Code 46220 · Indianapolis city, Indiana
ZIP Code 46226 · Indianapolis city, Indiana
ZIP Code 46235 · Indianapolis city, Indiana

Lawrence Township Metropolitan and Washington Township Metropolitan school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

ZIP Code 46220 · Indianapolis city, Indiana
ZIP Code 46226 · Indianapolis city, Indiana
ZIP Code 46250 · Indianapolis city, Indiana

Lawrence Township Metropolitan and Hamilton Southeastern Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

ZIP Code 46250 · Indianapolis city, Indiana
ZIP Code 46256 · Indianapolis city, Indiana

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

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 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.

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.