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Muskegon City School District

Michigan · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 2624840 · muskegonpublicschools.org · (231) 720-2000

Muskegon City is the only school district serving 1 of the 6 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 3 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 2. It covers 17,253 homes and 37,030 residents. By homes covered it ranks 52nd of the 540 districts in Michigan.

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

At 1,373 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Muskegon City covers 13 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 boundary17,253
  • Residents37,030
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches6
  • Where it is the only district1
  • Where it shares with another district3
  • Where it holds under half a percent2
  • Land area13 square miles
  • Homes per square mile1,373

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 49440 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 49445 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 49440 · Muskegon, Michigan100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 49442 · Muskegon, Michigan44% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 49441 · Norton Shores, Michigan42% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 49444 · Norton Shores, Michigan12% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 49443 · Muskegon, Michiganno homes at all
  • ZIP Code 49445 · North Muskegon, Michiganno homes at all

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Muskegon City is the largest district in 2 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 9,700 of the 18,324 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.

Muskegon City is the largest name in ZIP Code 49442 · Muskegon, Michigan and still holds a minority of it: 7,721 of 17,421 homes. The other 9,700 homes are with Orchard View Schools and Oakridge. 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 49440 · Muskegon, Michigan the single-name answer is the true one: Muskegon City holds all 903 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

Muskegon City reaches into ZIP Code 49441 · Norton Shores, Michigan with 7,266 of its 17,239 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Mona Shores Public leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 7,266 homes.

In ZIP Code 49444 · Norton Shores, Michigan this district is one name among 5. Muskegon Heights leads with the largest share and Muskegon City holds 1,363 of the 11,238 homes counted there; no single name describes that area at all.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Muskegon City 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 — Mona Shores Public, Reeths-Puffer Schools and Orchard View Schools. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Mona Shores Public School District10,510 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Reeths-Puffer Schools6,653 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Orchard View Schools5,649 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Muskegon Heights School District4,534 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Oakridge Public Schools4,051 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Fruitport Community Schools3,673 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Muskegon City shares ZIP Code areas with 6 different districts. The most frequent are Grand Haven Area, Mona Shores Public, Fruitport Community Schools and Muskegon Heights. 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.

  • Grand Haven Area Public Schools2 shared ZIP areas
  • Mona Shores Public School District2 shared ZIP areas
  • Fruitport Community Schools1 shared ZIP area
  • Muskegon Heights School District1 shared ZIP area
  • Oakridge Public Schools1 shared ZIP area
  • Orchard View Schools1 shared ZIP area

Muskegon City and Grand Haven Area school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 49441 · Norton Shores, Michigan
  • ZIP Code 49444 · Norton Shores, Michigan

Muskegon City and Mona Shores Public school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 49441 · Norton Shores, Michigan
  • ZIP Code 49444 · Norton Shores, Michigan

Muskegon City and Fruitport Community Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 49444 · Norton Shores, Michigan

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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 3 of the 6 ZIP Code areas Muskegon City 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.