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Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools

North Carolina · runs kindergarten through grade 12

NCES ID 3700720 · chccs.org · (919) 967-8211

Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools covers 36,891 of the homes in 8 ZIP Code areas, but its smallest measured presence is a different thing entirely: in ZIP Code area 27707 it holds 124 of 22,834 homes, or 0.5% of them. An address in that ZIP Code is almost certainly not in this district, and a lookup that names the district without the share says the opposite. Below the half-percent line this page draws it reaches 2 further ZIP Code areas, the least of them 1 home in 27705.

A few homes at the edge of someone else's ZIP Code

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Chapel Hill-Carrboro 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 boundary36,891
  • Residents91,509
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches8
  • Where it is the only district2
  • Where it shares with another district4
  • Where it holds under half a percent2
  • Land area62 square miles
  • Homes per square mile596

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 27510 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 27705 it holds 1 home, under half a percent. 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 27510 · Carrboro, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27599 · Chapel Hill, North Carolina7 of 7 homes
  • ZIP Code 27514 · Chapel Hill, North Carolina95% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27516 · Chapel Hill, North Carolina69% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27517 · Chapel Hill, North Carolina36% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27707 · Durham, North Carolina0.5% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27278 · Hillsborough, North Carolina25 homes, under half a percent
  • ZIP Code 27705 · Durham, North Carolina1 home, under half a percent

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools is the largest district in 5 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 14,650 of the 51,391 homes those areas hold — though in 2 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools is the largest name in ZIP Code 27517 · Chapel Hill, North Carolina and still holds a minority of it: 4,746 of 13,204 homes. The other 8,458 homes are with Chatham County Schools and Durham. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools holds 12,706 of the 18,344 homes in ZIP Code 27516 · Chapel Hill, North Carolina, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 5,638 homes with Chatham County Schools and Orange County Schools.

ZIP Code 27514 · Chapel Hill, North Carolina is a two-district area: 11,519 of its 12,073 homes are inside Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools, and the other 554 homes are with Orange County Schools. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 27510 · Carrboro, North Carolina the single-name answer is the true one: Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools holds all 7,763 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

ZIP Code 27599 · Chapel Hill, North Carolina is another area where one name covers everything — 7 homes, all of them inside Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools.

Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 27707 · Durham, North Carolina — Durham leads it — and Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools holds 124 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

Chapel Hill-Carrboro 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 — Durham, Orange County Schools and Chatham County Schools. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Durham Public Schools49,220 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Orange County Schools16,268 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Chatham County Schools7,877 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools in the same ZIP Code areas: Chatham County Schools, Durham and Orange 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.

  • Chatham County Schools2 shared ZIP areas
  • Durham Public Schools2 shared ZIP areas
  • Orange County Schools2 shared ZIP areas

Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools and Chatham County Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 27516 · Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27517 · Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools and Durham school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 27517 · Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27707 · Durham, North Carolina

Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools and Orange County Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 27514 · Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27516 · Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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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 8 ZIP Code areas Chapel Hill-Carrboro 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.