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Tupelo Public School District

Mississippi · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 2804320 · tupeloschools.com · (662) 841-8850

There is no ZIP Code area where Tupelo Public 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 Tupelo 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 boundary17,963
  • Residents40,009
  • 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 area72 square miles
  • Homes per square mile248

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 38801 at 75% of the homes; the thinnest is 38866, where it holds 21% of the homes.

  • ZIP Code 38801 · Tupelo, Mississippi75% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38804 · Tupelo, Mississippi70% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38826 · Tupelo, Mississippi57% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38866 · Saltillo, Mississippi21% of the homes

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Tupelo Public is the largest district in 3 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 6,786 of the 23,600 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.

Tupelo Public holds 9,704 of the 12,968 homes in ZIP Code 38801 · Tupelo, Mississippi, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 3,237 homes with Lee County and Pontotoc City Schools; 27 homes in a district too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 38804 · Tupelo, Mississippi the split runs 5,703 to 2,482 and the larger part is Tupelo Public's: the rest is 2,482 homes with Lee County and Itawamba County.

Tupelo Public is one of 4 districts the file names for ZIP Code 38826 · Tupelo, Mississippi at that level. It holds 1,407 of the 2,447 homes there; the rest is 1,040 homes with Pontotoc County Schools, Lee County and Pontotoc City Schools. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 1,040 of the homes in it.

Tupelo Public reaches into ZIP Code 38866 · Saltillo, Mississippi with 1,149 of its 5,354 homes, behind Lee County. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 1,149 homes.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Tupelo 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 — Lee County, Pontotoc City Schools and Pontotoc County Schools. 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 Tupelo Public in the same ZIP Code areas: Lee County, Pontotoc City Schools, Itawamba County and Pontotoc County Schools. 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.

Tupelo Public and Lee County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 38801 · Tupelo, Mississippi
  • ZIP Code 38804 · Tupelo, Mississippi
  • ZIP Code 38826 · Tupelo, Mississippi
  • ZIP Code 38866 · Saltillo, Mississippi

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

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

Tupelo Public and Itawamba County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 38804 · Tupelo, Mississippi

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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 Tupelo 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.