Columbus Municipal School District
Mississippi · runs pre-K through grade 12
NCES ID 2801200 · columbuscityschools.org · (662) 241-7400
There is no ZIP Code area where Columbus Municipal is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 4 of them and shares every one, with 1 different district 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 Columbus Municipal, 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 boundary13,749
- Residents28,790
- ZIP Code areas it reaches4
- Where it is the only district0
- Where it shares with another district4
- Where it holds under half a percent0
- Land area66 square miles
- Homes per square mile209
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 39701 at 82% of the homes; the thinnest is 39766, where it holds 3.9% of the homes.
- ZIP Code 39701 · Columbus, Mississippi82% of the homes
- ZIP Code 39705 · Columbus, Mississippi69% of the homes
- ZIP Code 39702 · Columbus, Mississippi40% of the homes
- ZIP Code 39766 · Lowndes County, Mississippi3.9% of the homes
What one name misses in the areas it leads
Columbus Municipal is the largest district in 2 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 3,274 of the 13,078 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.
ZIP Code 39705 · Columbus, Mississippi is a two-district area: 4,677 of its 6,788 homes are inside Columbus Municipal, and the other 2,111 homes are with Lowndes County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.
In ZIP Code 39701 · Columbus, Mississippi the split runs 5,127 to 1,163 and the larger part is Columbus Municipal's: the rest is 1,163 homes with Lowndes County.
ZIP Code 39702 · Columbus, Mississippi is close to being two districts in equal parts: Columbus Municipal holds 3,896 of its 9,622 homes and Lowndes County leads the rest. A lookup that picks the larger name is making a coin-toss look like a fact.
Columbus Municipal is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 39766 · Lowndes County, Mississippi — Lowndes County leads it — and Columbus Municipal holds 49 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
Columbus Municipal 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 — Lowndes County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.
- Lowndes County School District10,192 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
Who it shares ZIP Codes with
One district shares ZIP Codes with Columbus Municipal: Lowndes County, in 4 of them. For those areas a single-name lookup is choosing between exactly two answers, and it does not tell you it is choosing.
- Lowndes County School District4 shared ZIP areas
Columbus Municipal and Lowndes County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 39701 · Columbus, Mississippi
- ZIP Code 39702 · Columbus, Mississippi
- ZIP Code 39705 · Columbus, Mississippi
- ZIP Code 39766 · Lowndes County, Mississippi
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 4 ZIP Code areas Columbus Municipal 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.