Mooresville City Schools
North Carolina · runs pre-K through grade 12
NCES ID 3703120 · mgsd.k12.nc.us · (704) 658-2530
There is no ZIP Code area where Mooresville City Schools is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 3 of them and shares every one, with 2 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 Mooresville 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 boundary13,685
- Residents34,756
- ZIP Code areas it reaches4
- Where it is the only district0
- Where it shares with another district3
- Where it holds under half a percent1
- Land area36 square miles
- Homes per square mile381
The ZIP Code areas it reaches
Every one of the 3 areas where it holds a real share it shares with somebody. Its largest foothold is 28115 at 71% of the homes; the thinnest is 28036, where it holds 20 homes, under half a percent.
- ZIP Code 28115 · Mooresville, North Carolina71% of the homes
- ZIP Code 28117 · Lake Norman of Iredell, North Carolina7.0% of the homes
- ZIP Code 28125 · Mount Ulla, North Carolina6.8% of the homes
- ZIP Code 28036 · Davidson, North Carolina20 homes, under half a percent
What one name misses in the areas it leads
Mooresville 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 5,039 of the 17,180 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.
Mooresville City Schools holds 12,141 of the 17,180 homes in ZIP Code 28115 · Mooresville, North Carolina, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 5,039 homes with Iredell-Statesville Schools and Rowan-Salisbury Schools.
Mooresville City Schools is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 28117 · Lake Norman of Iredell, North Carolina — Iredell-Statesville Schools leads it — and Mooresville City Schools holds 1,449 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.
ZIP Code 28125 · Mount Ulla, North Carolina is another area where Mooresville City Schools is present without being the answer: 75 of its 1,101 homes, behind Rowan-Salisbury Schools.
Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes
Mooresville City 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 — Iredell-Statesville Schools, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and Rowan-Salisbury Schools. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.
- Iredell-Statesville Schools23,392 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools6,188 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
- Rowan-Salisbury Schools2,100 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
- Cabarrus County Schools1,502 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
Who it shares ZIP Codes with
These districts appear alongside Mooresville City Schools in the same ZIP Code areas: Iredell-Statesville Schools and Rowan-Salisbury 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.
- Iredell-Statesville Schools3 shared ZIP areas
- Rowan-Salisbury Schools2 shared ZIP areas
Mooresville City Schools and Iredell-Statesville Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 28115 · Mooresville, North Carolina
- ZIP Code 28117 · Lake Norman of Iredell, North Carolina
- ZIP Code 28125 · Mount Ulla, North Carolina
Mooresville City Schools and Rowan-Salisbury Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 28115 · Mooresville, North Carolina
- ZIP Code 28125 · Mount Ulla, 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.
Where this district sits
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 3 of the 4 ZIP Code areas Mooresville 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.