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Boone County School District

Kentucky · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 2100510 · boone.kyschools.us · (859) 283-1003

Boone County is the only school district serving 4 of the 8 ZIP Code areas it touches, and shares the other 4 with neighbors. It covers 48,520 homes and 127,881 residents. By homes covered it ranks 3rd of the 177 districts in Kentucky. The district it shares ZIP Codes with most often is Kenton County, in 3 of them.

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

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Boone County, 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 boundary48,520
  • Residents127,881
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches8
  • Where it is the only district4
  • Where it shares with another district4
  • Where it holds under half a percent0
  • Land area221 square miles
  • Homes per square mile220

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 41005 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 41018 it holds 4.0% 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 41005 · Burlington, Kentucky100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 41091 · Union, Kentucky100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 41048 · Francisville, Kentucky100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 41080 · Petersburg, Kentucky100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 41042 · Florence, Kentucky97% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 41094 · Walton, Kentucky45% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 41092 · Verona, Kentucky8.0% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 41018 · Erlanger, Kentucky4.0% of the homes

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Boone County is the largest district in 6 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 3,549 of the 51,475 homes those areas hold — though in 4 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Boone County is the largest name in ZIP Code 41094 · Walton, Kentucky and still holds a minority of it: 2,431 of 5,350 homes. The other 2,919 homes are with Walton-Verona Independent and Kenton County. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

Boone County holds 21,597 of the 22,227 homes in ZIP Code 41042 · Florence, Kentucky, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 534 homes with Kenton County and 96 homes in a district too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 41005 · Burlington, Kentucky the single-name answer is the true one: Boone County holds all 9,051 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

ZIP Code 41048 · Francisville, Kentucky is another area where one name covers everything — 5,495 homes, all of them inside Boone County.

Boone County is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 41018 · Erlanger, Kentucky — Erlanger-Elsmere Independent leads it — and Boone County holds 482 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 41092 · Verona, Kentucky is another area where Boone County is present without being the answer: 112 of its 1,396 homes, behind Walton-Verona Independent.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Boone County 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 — Erlanger-Elsmere Independent, Kenton County and Walton-Verona Independent. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Erlanger-Elsmere Independent School District7,692 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Kenton County School District5,262 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Walton-Verona Independent School District2,874 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Gallatin County School District569 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Grant County School District10 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Boone County in the same ZIP Code areas: Kenton County, Walton-Verona Independent, Erlanger-Elsmere Independent and Gallatin County. 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.

  • Kenton County School District3 shared ZIP areas
  • Walton-Verona Independent School District2 shared ZIP areas
  • Erlanger-Elsmere Independent School District1 shared ZIP area
  • Gallatin County School District1 shared ZIP area
  • Grant County School District1 shared ZIP area

Boone County and Kenton County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 41018 · Erlanger, Kentucky
  • ZIP Code 41042 · Florence, Kentucky
  • ZIP Code 41094 · Walton, Kentucky

Boone County and Walton-Verona Independent school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 41092 · Verona, Kentucky
  • ZIP Code 41094 · Walton, Kentucky

Boone County and Erlanger-Elsmere Independent school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 41018 · Erlanger, Kentucky

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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 4 of the 8 ZIP Code areas Boone County 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.