Wayzata Public School District
Minnesota · runs pre-K through grade 12
NCES ID 2742160 · wayzataschools.org · (763) 745-5000
There is no ZIP Code area where Wayzata Public is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 8 of them and shares every one, with 10 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 Wayzata Public, 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 boundary28,872
- Residents72,912
- ZIP Code areas it reaches8
- Where it is the only district0
- Where it shares with another district8
- Where it holds under half a percent0
- Land area40 square miles
- Homes per square mile724
The ZIP Code areas it reaches
The spread is the thing to notice. In 55447 this district holds 94% of the homes; in 55356 it holds 1.5% 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 55447 · Plymouth, Minnesota94% of the homes
- ZIP Code 55446 · Plymouth, Minnesota75% of the homes
- ZIP Code 55340 · Corcoran, Minnesota58% of the homes
- ZIP Code 55391 · Orono, Minnesota47% of the homes
- ZIP Code 55441 · Plymouth, Minnesota38% of the homes
- ZIP Code 55305 · Minnetonka, Minnesota26% of the homes
- ZIP Code 55311 · Maple Grove, Minnesota11% of the homes
- ZIP Code 55356 · Orono, Minnesota1.5% of the homes
The areas it leads without holding most of the homes
Wayzata Public is the largest district in 4 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 8,408 of the 29,873 homes those areas hold. That count is computed here from census blocks; the lookups that answer this question with a single name never print it.
Wayzata Public is the largest name in ZIP Code 55391 · Orono, Minnesota and still holds a minority of it: 3,381 of 7,259 homes. The other 3,878 homes are with Minnetonka Public, Orono Public, Westonka Public and one 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.
Wayzata Public holds 7,964 of the 10,635 homes in ZIP Code 55446 · Plymouth, Minnesota, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 2,671 homes with Osseo Public and Robbinsdale Public.
Wayzata Public is one of 6 districts the file names for ZIP Code 55340 · Corcoran, Minnesota at that level. It holds 1,810 of the 3,132 homes there; the rest is 1,322 homes with Rockford Public, Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose, Osseo Public and 2 more districts. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 1,322 of the homes in it.
ZIP Code 55447 · Plymouth, Minnesota is a two-district area: 8,310 of its 8,847 homes are inside Wayzata Public, and the other 537 homes are with Robbinsdale Public. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.
Wayzata Public reaches into ZIP Code 55441 · Plymouth, Minnesota with 3,104 of its 8,170 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Robbinsdale Public leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 3,104 homes.
Wayzata Public reaches into ZIP Code 55305 · Minnetonka, Minnesota with 2,809 of its 10,795 homes, behind Hopkins Public. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 2,809 homes.
ZIP Code 55311 · Maple Grove, Minnesota repeats the pattern with 4 names holding a real share: 1,459 of its 13,563 homes are Wayzata Public's, and the other 12,104 are not.
Wayzata Public is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 55356 · Orono, Minnesota — Orono Public leads it — and Wayzata Public holds 35 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.
Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes
Wayzata Public 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 — Osseo Public, Hopkins Public and Robbinsdale Public. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.
- Osseo Public School District14,068 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
- Hopkins Public School District9,331 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
- Robbinsdale Public School District5,165 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
- Orono Public School District3,527 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
- Minnetonka Public School District1,795 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
- Rockford Public School District755 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
Who it shares ZIP Codes with
Wayzata Public shares ZIP Code areas with 10 different districts. The most frequent are Hopkins Public, Orono Public, Osseo Public and Robbinsdale Public. 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.
- Hopkins Public School District3 shared ZIP areas
- Orono Public School District3 shared ZIP areas
- Osseo Public School District3 shared ZIP areas
- Robbinsdale Public School District3 shared ZIP areas
- Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Public Schools2 shared ZIP areas
- Delano Public School District1 shared ZIP area
Wayzata Public and Hopkins Public school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 55305 · Minnetonka, Minnesota
- ZIP Code 55391 · Orono, Minnesota
- ZIP Code 55441 · Plymouth, Minnesota
Wayzata Public and Orono Public school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 55340 · Corcoran, Minnesota
- ZIP Code 55356 · Orono, Minnesota
- ZIP Code 55391 · Orono, Minnesota
Wayzata Public and Osseo Public school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 55311 · Maple Grove, Minnesota
- ZIP Code 55340 · Corcoran, Minnesota
- ZIP Code 55446 · Plymouth, Minnesota
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 8 of the 8 ZIP Code areas Wayzata Public 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.