Olathe Unified School District 233
Kansas · runs pre-K through grade 12
NCES ID 2010140 · olatheschools.org · (913) 780-7000
There is no ZIP Code area where Olathe Unified School District 233 is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 8 of them and shares every one, with 5 different districts in total. A lookup that returns a single district name for any of those ZIP Codes is guessing which side of a line an address falls on.
It never has a ZIP Code to itself
The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Olathe Unified School District 233, 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 boundary62,900
- Residents164,217
- ZIP Code areas it reaches9
- Where it is the only district0
- Where it shares with another district8
- Where it holds under half a percent1
- Land area74 square miles
- Homes per square mile856
The ZIP Code areas it reaches
The spread is the thing to notice. In 66061 this district holds 97% of the homes; in 66219 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 66061 · Olathe, Kansas97% of the homes
- ZIP Code 66220 · Lenexa, Kansas94% of the homes
- ZIP Code 66062 · Olathe, Kansas83% of the homes
- ZIP Code 66227 · Lenexa, Kansas48% of the homes
- ZIP Code 66210 · Overland Park, Kansas41% of the homes
- ZIP Code 66213 · Overland Park, Kansas37% of the homes
- ZIP Code 66221 · Overland Park, Kansas19% of the homes
- ZIP Code 66215 · Lenexa, Kansas8.8% of the homes
- ZIP Code 66219 · Lenexa, Kansasno homes at all
What one name misses in the areas it leads
Olathe Unified School District 233 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 5,573 of the 55,500 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.
Olathe Unified School District 233 holds 23,613 of the 28,313 homes in ZIP Code 66062 · Olathe, Kansas, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 4,690 homes with Spring Hill Unified School District 230 and Blue Valley Unified School District 229; 10 homes in a district too small to name here.
In ZIP Code 66061 · Olathe, Kansas the split runs 23,500 to 684 and the larger part is Olathe Unified School District 233's: the rest is 684 homes with De Soto Unified School District 232 and Gardner Edgerton Unified School District 231.
ZIP Code 66220 · Lenexa, Kansas is a two-district area: 2,814 of its 3,003 homes are inside Olathe Unified School District 233, and the other 189 homes are with De Soto Unified School District 232. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.
Olathe Unified School District 233 reaches into ZIP Code 66213 · Overland Park, Kansas with 4,974 of its 13,309 homes, behind Blue Valley Unified School District 229. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 4,974 homes.
ZIP Code 66210 · Overland Park, Kansas is close to being two districts in equal parts: Olathe Unified School District 233 holds 3,748 of its 9,080 homes and Blue Valley Unified School District 229 leads the rest. A lookup that picks the larger name is making a coin-toss look like a fact.
Olathe Unified School District 233 reaches into ZIP Code 66221 · Overland Park, Kansas with 1,600 of its 8,337 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Blue Valley Unified School District 229 leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 1,600 homes.
ZIP Code 66227 · Lenexa, Kansas is another area where Olathe Unified School District 233 is present without being the answer: 1,588 of its 3,306 homes, behind De Soto Unified School District 232.
Olathe Unified School District 233 is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 66215 · Lenexa, Kansas — Shawnee Mission Public Schools Unified leads it — and Olathe Unified School District 233 holds 1,063 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
Olathe Unified School District 233 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 — Blue Valley Unified School District 229, Shawnee Mission Public Schools Unified and Spring Hill Unified School District 230. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.
- Blue Valley Unified School District 22922,224 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
- Shawnee Mission Public Schools Unified School District17,851 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
- Spring Hill Unified School District 2302,870 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
- De Soto Unified School District 2322,459 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
- Gardner Edgerton Unified School District 231132 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
Who it shares ZIP Codes with
These districts appear alongside Olathe Unified School District 233 in the same ZIP Code areas: Blue Valley Unified School District 229, De Soto Unified School District 232, Spring Hill Unified School District 230 and Gardner Edgerton Unified School District 231. 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.
- Blue Valley Unified School District 2294 shared ZIP areas
- De Soto Unified School District 2323 shared ZIP areas
- Spring Hill Unified School District 2302 shared ZIP areas
- Gardner Edgerton Unified School District 2311 shared ZIP area
- Shawnee Mission Public Schools Unified School District1 shared ZIP area
Olathe Unified School District 233 and Blue Valley Unified School District 229 school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 66062 · Olathe, Kansas
- ZIP Code 66210 · Overland Park, Kansas
- ZIP Code 66213 · Overland Park, Kansas
- ZIP Code 66221 · Overland Park, Kansas
Olathe Unified School District 233 and De Soto Unified School District 232 school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 66061 · Olathe, Kansas
- ZIP Code 66220 · Lenexa, Kansas
- ZIP Code 66227 · Lenexa, Kansas
Olathe Unified School District 233 and Spring Hill Unified School District 230 school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 66062 · Olathe, Kansas
- ZIP Code 66221 · Overland Park, Kansas
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.
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 8 of the 9 ZIP Code areas Olathe Unified School District 233 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.