Zachary Community School District
Louisiana · runs pre-K through grade 12
NCES ID 2200039 · (225) 658-4969
There is no ZIP Code area where Zachary Community is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 4 of them and shares every one, with 4 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 Zachary Community, 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 boundary9,991
- Residents26,205
- ZIP Code areas it reaches5
- Where it is the only district0
- Where it shares with another district4
- Where it holds under half a percent1
- Land area84 square miles
- Homes per square mile118
The ZIP Code areas it reaches
Every one of the 4 areas where it holds a real share it shares with somebody. Its largest foothold is 70791 at 81% of the homes; the thinnest is 70807, where it holds 3 homes, under half a percent.
- ZIP Code 70791 · Zachary, Louisiana81% of the homes
- ZIP Code 70777 · Slaughter, Louisiana27% of the homes
- ZIP Code 70748 · Jackson, Louisiana4.9% of the homes
- ZIP Code 70714 · Central, Louisiana2.1% of the homes
- ZIP Code 70807 · Baton Rouge, Louisiana3 homes, under half a percent
What one name misses in the areas it leads
Zachary Community is the largest district in 1 ZIP Code area, and that area is not wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 2,224 of the 11,453 homes that area holds. That count is computed here from census blocks; the lookups that answer this question with a single name never print it.
Zachary Community is one of 4 districts the file names for ZIP Code 70791 · Zachary, Louisiana at that level. It holds 9,229 of the 11,453 homes there; the rest is 2,224 homes with East Baton Rouge Parish, Central Community and East Feliciana Parish. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 2,224 of the homes in it.
Zachary Community reaches into ZIP Code 70777 · Slaughter, Louisiana with 496 of its 1,839 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and East Feliciana Parish leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 496 homes.
Zachary Community is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 70714 · Central, Louisiana — Baker City leads it — and Zachary Community holds 166 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.
ZIP Code 70748 · Jackson, Louisiana is another area where Zachary Community is present without being the answer: 97 of its 1,986 homes, behind East Feliciana Parish.
Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes
Zachary Community 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 — East Baton Rouge Parish, Baker City and East Feliciana Parish. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.
- East Baton Rouge Parish School District9,466 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
- Baker City School District5,152 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
- East Feliciana Parish School District3,226 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
- Central Community School District1,809 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
Who it shares ZIP Codes with
These districts appear alongside Zachary Community in the same ZIP Code areas: East Baton Rouge Parish, East Feliciana Parish, Central Community and Baker City. 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.
- East Baton Rouge Parish School District3 shared ZIP areas
- East Feliciana Parish School District3 shared ZIP areas
- Central Community School District2 shared ZIP areas
- Baker City School District1 shared ZIP area
Zachary Community and East Baton Rouge Parish school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 70714 · Central, Louisiana
- ZIP Code 70777 · Slaughter, Louisiana
- ZIP Code 70791 · Zachary, Louisiana
Zachary Community and East Feliciana Parish school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 70748 · Jackson, Louisiana
- ZIP Code 70777 · Slaughter, Louisiana
- ZIP Code 70791 · Zachary, Louisiana
Zachary Community and Central Community school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 70714 · Central, Louisiana
- ZIP Code 70791 · Zachary, Louisiana
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 4 of the 5 ZIP Code areas Zachary Community 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.