School Administrative District 70

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

2,075 homes hold 3,595 residents, about 1.7 people each. Where households are small, a district's share of the homes overstates its share of the children, and this page counts homes.

• Homes inside the boundary2,075
• Residents3,595
• ZIP Code areas it reaches4
• Where it is the only district1
• Where it shares with another district3
• Where it holds under half a percent0
• Land area207 square miles
• Homes per square mile10

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

It is the only district serving 1 of them and shares the other 3. It holds 100% of the homes in 04761 and 28% of the homes in 04497; each entry below says how much of that area's homes it holds, and the rest belong to somebody else.

• ZIP Code 04761 · New Limerick, Maine100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 04471 · Amity, Maine31% of the homes
• ZIP Code 04730 · Houlton, Maine29% of the homes
• ZIP Code 04497 · Reed, Maine28% of the homes

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

School Administrative District 70 is the largest district in 2 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 266 of the 776 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.

School Administrative District 70 is the largest name in ZIP Code 04497 · Reed, Maine and still holds a minority of it: 106 of 372 homes. The other 266 homes are with Reed Plantation, Aroostook Unorganized Territory, Glenwood Plantation and 1 more district. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

In ZIP Code 04761 · New Limerick, Maine the single-name answer is the true one: School Administrative District 70 holds all 404 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

School Administrative District 70 reaches into ZIP Code 04730 · Houlton, Maine with 1,391 of its 4,806 homes, behind School Administrative District 29. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 1,391 homes.

School Administrative District 70 reaches into ZIP Code 04471 · Amity, Maine with 174 of its 570 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Orient leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 174 homes.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

School Administrative District 70 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 — School Administrative District 29, Orient and Aroostook Unorganized Territory. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• School Administrative District 293,399 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Orient272 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Aroostook Unorganized Territory210 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Reed Plantation103 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Glenwood Plantation44 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Penobscot Unorganized Territory33 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

School Administrative District 70 shares ZIP Code areas with 6 different districts. The most frequent are Aroostook Unorganized Territory, Glenwood Plantation, Orient and Reed Plantation. In a neighborhood this crowded the question is not which district serves the ZIP Code but which side of which street an address is on.

• Aroostook Unorganized Territory2 shared ZIP areas
• Glenwood Plantation1 shared ZIP area
• Orient1 shared ZIP area
• Reed Plantation1 shared ZIP area
• School Administrative District 291 shared ZIP area
• Penobscot Unorganized Territory1 shared ZIP area

Where this district sits

• School districts in Maine123 of 426 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 3 of the 4 ZIP Code areas School Administrative District 70 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.