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Lincoln County Schools

North Carolina · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 3702680 · lincoln.k12.nc.us · (704) 732-2261

There is no ZIP Code area where Lincoln County Schools is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 11 of them and shares every one, with 3 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 Lincoln County 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 boundary37,170
  • Residents86,810
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches11
  • Where it is the only district0
  • Where it shares with another district11
  • Where it holds under half a percent0
  • Land area296 square miles
  • Homes per square mile126

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 28080 this district holds 98% of the homes; in 28673 it holds 1.2% 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 28080 · Iron Station, North Carolina98% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28092 · Lincolnton, North Carolina94% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28037 · Denver, North Carolina90% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28033 · Crouse, North Carolina66% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28168 · Belwood, North Carolina64% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28006 · Alexis, North Carolina41% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28164 · Lowesville, North Carolina34% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28650 · Maiden, North Carolina22% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28021 · Cherryville, North Carolina13% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28090 · Belwood, North Carolina3.2% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28673 · Lake Norman of Catawba, North Carolina1.2% of the homes

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Lincoln County Schools is the largest district in 5 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 4,097 of the 36,818 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.

Lincoln County Schools holds 2,790 of the 4,345 homes in ZIP Code 28168 · Belwood, North Carolina, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 1,538 homes with Catawba County Schools and 17 homes in districts too small to name here.

ZIP Code 28037 · Denver, North Carolina is a two-district area: 10,160 of its 11,243 homes are inside Lincoln County Schools, and the other 1,083 homes are with Catawba County Schools. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 28092 · Lincolnton, North Carolina the split runs 15,862 to 990 and the larger part is Lincoln County Schools': the rest is 990 homes with Gaston County Schools and Catawba County Schools.

In ZIP Code 28033 · Crouse, North Carolina the split runs 777 to 406 and the larger part is Lincoln County Schools': the rest is 406 homes with Gaston County Schools.

Lincoln County Schools reaches into ZIP Code 28164 · Lowesville, North Carolina with 2,142 of its 6,278 homes, behind Gaston County Schools. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 2,142 homes.

ZIP Code 28650 · Maiden, North Carolina is another area where Lincoln County Schools is present without being the answer: 1,209 of its 5,506 homes, behind Catawba County Schools.

Lincoln County Schools reaches into ZIP Code 28021 · Cherryville, North Carolina with 770 of its 6,050 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Gaston County Schools leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 770 homes.

ZIP Code 28006 · Alexis, North Carolina is close to being two districts in equal parts: Lincoln County Schools holds 169 of its 411 homes and Gaston County Schools leads the rest. A lookup that picks the larger name is making a coin-toss look like a fact.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Lincoln County Schools 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 — Catawba County Schools, Gaston County Schools and Cleveland 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 Lincoln County Schools in the same ZIP Code areas: Gaston County Schools, Catawba County Schools and Cleveland 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.

Lincoln County Schools and Gaston County Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 28006 · Alexis, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 28021 · Cherryville, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 28033 · Crouse, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 28080 · Iron Station, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 28092 · Lincolnton, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 28164 · Lowesville, North Carolina

Lincoln County Schools and Catawba County Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 28037 · Denver, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 28092 · Lincolnton, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 28168 · Belwood, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 28650 · Maiden, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 28673 · Lake Norman of Catawba, North Carolina

Lincoln County Schools and Cleveland County Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 28021 · Cherryville, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 28090 · Belwood, North Carolina

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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 11 of the 11 ZIP Code areas Lincoln County 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.