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Montgomery County Schools

North Carolina · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 3703060 · montgomery.k12.nc.us · (910) 576-6511

Montgomery County Schools is the only school district serving 1 of the 9 ZIP Code areas it touches, and shares the other 8 with neighbors. It covers 14,773 homes and 25,751 residents. By homes covered it ranks 76th of the 118 districts in North Carolina. The district it shares ZIP Codes with most often is Moore County Schools, in 4 of them.

Where this district is the answer, and where it is not

14,773 homes hold 25,751 residents, about 1.7 people each. Where households are small, a district's share of the homes overstates its share of the children, and this page counts homes.

  • Homes inside the boundary14,773
  • Residents25,751
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches9
  • Where it is the only district1
  • Where it shares with another district8
  • Where it holds under half a percent0
  • Land area492 square miles
  • Homes per square mile30

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 27247 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 27341 it holds 7.4% 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 27247 · Star, North Carolina100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27229 · Candor, North Carolina98% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27306 · Mount Gilead, North Carolina97% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27371 · Troy, North Carolina97% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27209 · Biscoe, North Carolina90% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27356 · Star, North Carolina89% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 28127 · New London, North Carolina48% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27281 · Foxfire, North Carolina26% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 27341 · Seagrove, North Carolina7.4% of the homes

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Montgomery County Schools is the largest district in 7 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 2,962 of the 17,174 homes those areas hold — though in 1 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Montgomery County Schools is the largest name in ZIP Code 28127 · New London, North Carolina and still holds a minority of it: 2,215 of 4,573 homes. The other 2,358 homes are 2,350 with Stanly County Schools and Davidson County Schools; 8 in districts too small to name here. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

ZIP Code 27356 · Star, North Carolina is a two-district area: 1,215 of its 1,371 homes are inside Montgomery County Schools, and the other 156 homes are with Moore County Schools. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 27209 · Biscoe, North Carolina the split runs 1,427 to 153 and the larger part is Montgomery County Schools': the rest is 153 homes with Moore County Schools.

In ZIP Code 27247 · Star, North Carolina the single-name answer is the true one: Montgomery County Schools holds all 50 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

Montgomery County Schools reaches into ZIP Code 27281 · Foxfire, North Carolina with 385 of its 1,500 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Moore County Schools leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 385 homes.

Montgomery County Schools is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 27341 · Seagrove, North Carolina — Randolph County Schools leads it — and Montgomery County Schools holds 176 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

Montgomery 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 — Stanly County Schools, Moore County Schools and Randolph County Schools. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Stanly County Schools2,180 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Moore County Schools2,006 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Randolph County Schools1,682 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Richmond County Schools225 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Davidson County Schools170 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Montgomery County Schools in the same ZIP Code areas: Moore County Schools, Richmond County Schools, Randolph County Schools and Davidson 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.

  • Moore County Schools4 shared ZIP areas
  • Richmond County Schools3 shared ZIP areas
  • Randolph County Schools2 shared ZIP areas
  • Davidson County Schools1 shared ZIP area
  • Stanly County Schools1 shared ZIP area

Montgomery County Schools and Moore County Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 27209 · Biscoe, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27281 · Foxfire, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27341 · Seagrove, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27356 · Star, North Carolina

Montgomery County Schools and Richmond County Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 27229 · Candor, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27281 · Foxfire, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27306 · Mount Gilead, North Carolina

Montgomery County Schools and Randolph County Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 27341 · Seagrove, North Carolina
  • ZIP Code 27371 · Troy, North Carolina

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.

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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 8 of the 9 ZIP Code areas Montgomery 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.