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Pontotoc City Schools

Mississippi · runs kindergarten through grade 12

NCES ID 2803690 · pontotoc.k12.ms.us · (662) 489-3336

There is no ZIP Code area where Pontotoc City Schools is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 4 of them and shares every one, with 4 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 Pontotoc City Schools, 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 boundary5,466
  • Residents12,351
  • 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 area100 square miles
  • Homes per square mile55

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 38863 at 52% of the homes; the thinnest is 38828, where it holds 0.7% of the homes.

  • ZIP Code 38863 · Pontotoc, Mississippi52% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38826 · Tupelo, Mississippi11% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38801 · Tupelo, Mississippi3.9% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38828 · Blue Springs, Mississippi0.7% of the homes

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Pontotoc City Schools is the largest district in 1 ZIP Code area, and that area is not wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 4,272 of the 8,962 homes that area holds. That count is computed here from census blocks; the lookups that answer this question with a single name never print it.

Pontotoc City Schools holds 4,690 of the 8,962 homes in ZIP Code 38863 · Pontotoc, Mississippi, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 4,240 homes with Pontotoc County Schools and 32 homes in a district too small to name here.

Pontotoc City Schools is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 38801 · Tupelo, Mississippi — Tupelo Public leads it — and Pontotoc City Schools holds 501 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

In ZIP Code 38826 · Tupelo, Mississippi this district is one name among 4. Tupelo Public leads with the largest share and Pontotoc City Schools holds 262 of the 2,447 homes counted there; no single name describes that area at all.

ZIP Code 38828 · Blue Springs, Mississippi is another area where Pontotoc City Schools is present without being the answer: 13 of its 1,994 homes, behind Union County.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Pontotoc City Schools runs kindergarten 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 — Tupelo Public, Pontotoc County Schools and Lee County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Pontotoc City Schools in the same ZIP Code areas: Lee County, Pontotoc County Schools, Tupelo Public and Union County. A single-name lookup for one of those areas has to choose between them, and the choice is right for some addresses and wrong for others.

Pontotoc City Schools and Lee County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 38801 · Tupelo, Mississippi
  • ZIP Code 38826 · Tupelo, Mississippi
  • ZIP Code 38828 · Blue Springs, Mississippi

Pontotoc City Schools and Pontotoc County Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 38826 · Tupelo, Mississippi
  • ZIP Code 38828 · Blue Springs, Mississippi
  • ZIP Code 38863 · Pontotoc, Mississippi

Pontotoc City Schools and Tupelo Public school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 38801 · Tupelo, Mississippi
  • ZIP Code 38826 · Tupelo, Mississippi

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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.

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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 4 of the 4 ZIP Code areas Pontotoc City Schools 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.