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Detroit Public Schools Community District

Michigan · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 2601103 · detroitk12.org · (313) 873-7922

Detroit Public Schools Community is the only school district serving 25 of the 35 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 7 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 3. It covers 309,952 homes and 639,202 residents. By homes covered it ranks 1st of the 540 districts in Michigan.

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

At 2,233 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Detroit Public Schools Community covers 139 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 boundary309,952
  • Residents639,202
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches35
  • Where it is the only district25
  • Where it shares with another district7
  • Where it holds under half a percent3
  • Land area139 square miles
  • Homes per square mile2,233

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 48228 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 48243 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 48228 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48219 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48235 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48227 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48221 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48224 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48238 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48207 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48205 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48234 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48204 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48214 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48223 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48202 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48206 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48210 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48209 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48201 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48213 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48215 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48226 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48208 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48216 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48217 · Detroit, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48233 · Detroit, Michigan1 of 1 home
  • ZIP Code 48211 · Detroit, Michigan93% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48203 · Detroit, Michigan58% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48212 · Detroit, Michigan38% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48239 · Detroit, Michigan13% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48236 · Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan7.2% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48225 · Harper Woods, Michigan3.7% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48240 · Detroit, Michigan2.4% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 48126 · Dearborn, Michiganno homes at all
  • ZIP Code 48230 · Grosse Pointe Park, Michiganno homes at all
  • ZIP Code 48243 · Detroit, Michiganno homes at all

What an answer of one district name misses here

Detroit Public Schools Community is the largest district in 27 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 5,301 of the 306,539 homes those areas hold — though in 25 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

ZIP Code 48203 · Detroit, Michigan is a two-district area: 7,231 of its 12,368 homes are inside Detroit Public Schools Community, and the other 5,137 homes are with Highland Park City Schools. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 48211 · Detroit, Michigan the split runs 2,245 to 164 and the larger part is Detroit Public Schools Community's: the rest is 164 homes with Hamtramck.

In ZIP Code 48201 · Detroit, Michigan the single-name answer is the true one: Detroit Public Schools Community holds all 10,004 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

ZIP Code 48202 · Detroit, Michigan is another area where one name covers everything — 10,435 homes, all of them inside Detroit Public Schools Community.

Detroit Public Schools Community reaches into ZIP Code 48212 · Detroit, Michigan with 5,370 of its 14,117 homes, behind Hamtramck. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 5,370 homes.

Detroit Public Schools Community reaches into ZIP Code 48239 · Detroit, Michigan with 1,978 of its 15,445 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and South Redford leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 1,978 homes.

Detroit Public Schools Community is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 48236 · Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan — Grosse Pointe leads it — and Detroit Public Schools Community holds 928 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 48225 · Harper Woods, Michigan is another area where Detroit Public Schools Community is present without being the answer: 254 of its 6,787 homes, behind Harper Woods City Schools.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Detroit Public Schools 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 — Grosse Pointe, Dearborn City and Redford Union. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Grosse Pointe Public Schools21,997 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Dearborn City School District17,295 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Redford Union School District10,599 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • South Redford School District9,940 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Hamtramck Public Schools8,911 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Highland Park City Schools5,137 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Detroit Public Schools Community shares ZIP Code areas with 7 different districts. The most frequent are Hamtramck, Grosse Pointe, Redford Union and Clarenceville. 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.

  • Hamtramck Public Schools2 shared ZIP areas
  • Grosse Pointe Public Schools2 shared ZIP areas
  • Redford Union School District2 shared ZIP areas
  • Clarenceville School District1 shared ZIP area
  • Harper Woods City Schools1 shared ZIP area
  • Highland Park City Schools1 shared ZIP area

Detroit Public Schools Community and Hamtramck school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 48211 · Detroit, Michigan
  • ZIP Code 48212 · Detroit, Michigan

Detroit Public Schools Community and Grosse Pointe school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 48225 · Harper Woods, Michigan
  • ZIP Code 48236 · Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan

Detroit Public Schools Community and Redford Union school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 48239 · Detroit, Michigan
  • ZIP Code 48240 · Detroit, Michigan

Have a street address?

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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 7 of the 35 ZIP Code areas Detroit Public Schools 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.