Washington Township Metropolitan School District

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

At 1,242 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Washington Township Metropolitan covers 37 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 boundary46,042
• Residents91,809
• ZIP Code areas it reaches9
• Where it is the only district1
• Where it shares with another district7
• Where it holds under half a percent1
• Land area37 square miles
• Homes per square mile1,242

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 46240 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 46268 it holds 1 home, 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 46240 · Indianapolis city, Indiana100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 46260 · Indianapolis city, Indiana98% of the homes
• ZIP Code 46228 · Indianapolis city, Indiana67% of the homes
• ZIP Code 46250 · Indianapolis city, Indiana50% of the homes
• ZIP Code 46220 · Indianapolis city, Indiana39% of the homes
• ZIP Code 46205 · Indianapolis city, Indiana6.3% of the homes
• ZIP Code 46226 · Indianapolis city, Indiana3.9% of the homes
• ZIP Code 46208 · Indianapolis city, Indiana3.1% of the homes
• ZIP Code 46268 · Indianapolis city, Indiana1 home, under half a percent

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Washington Township Metropolitan is the largest district in 4 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 7,788 of the 44,659 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.

Washington Township Metropolitan is the largest name in ZIP Code 46250 · Indianapolis city, Indiana and still holds a minority of it: 5,153 of 10,377 homes. The other 5,224 homes are with Lawrence Township Metropolitan and Hamilton Southeastern Schools. 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 46228 · Indianapolis city, Indiana is a two-district area: 4,372 of its 6,547 homes are inside Washington Township Metropolitan, and the other 2,175 homes are with Pike Township Metropolitan. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

Washington Township Metropolitan holds 15,751 of the 16,139 homes in ZIP Code 46260 · Indianapolis city, Indiana, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 338 homes with Pike Township Metropolitan and 50 homes in districts too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 46240 · Indianapolis city, Indiana the split runs 11,595 to 1 and the larger part is Washington Township Metropolitan's: the rest is 1 home in a district too small to name here.

Washington Township Metropolitan reaches into ZIP Code 46220 · Indianapolis city, Indiana with 7,169 of its 18,216 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Indianapolis leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 7,169 homes.

Washington Township Metropolitan is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 46205 · Indianapolis city, Indiana — Indianapolis leads it — and Washington Township Metropolitan holds 889 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 46226 · Indianapolis city, Indiana is another area where Washington Township Metropolitan is present without being the answer: 768 of its 19,601 homes, behind Indianapolis.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Washington Township Metropolitan runs kindergarten 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, Lawrence Township Metropolitan and Pike Township Metropolitan. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Indianapolis Public Schools43,678 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
• Lawrence Township Metropolitan School District14,703 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Pike Township Metropolitan School District14,688 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Warren Township Metropolitan School District757 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Zionsville Community Schools289 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Hamilton Southeastern Schools158 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Washington Township Metropolitan in the same ZIP Code areas: Indianapolis, Lawrence Township Metropolitan, Pike Township Metropolitan and Hamilton Southeastern Schools. 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 Schools4 shared ZIP areas
• Lawrence Township Metropolitan School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Pike Township Metropolitan School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Hamilton Southeastern Schools1 shared ZIP area
• Warren Township Metropolitan School District1 shared ZIP area

Where this district sits

• School districts in Indiana513 of 806 ZIP areas split
• Every district with a page here260 districts listed

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 7 of the 9 ZIP Code areas Washington 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.