Ogallala Public Schools

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

4,375 homes hold 6,687 residents, about 1.5 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 boundary4,375
• Residents6,687
• ZIP Code areas it reaches6
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district6
• Where it holds under half a percent0
• Land area525 square miles
• Homes per square mile8

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 69153 this district holds 99% of the homes; in 69155 it holds 4.6% 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 69153 · Ogallala, Nebraska99% of the homes
• ZIP Code 69146 · Lemoyne, Nebraska82% of the homes
• ZIP Code 69144 · Keystone, Nebraska66% of the homes
• ZIP Code 69147 · Belmar, Nebraska57% of the homes
• ZIP Code 69127 · Brule, Nebraska47% of the homes
• ZIP Code 69155 · Paxton, Nebraska4.6% of the homes

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Ogallala is the largest district in 4 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 545 of the 4,605 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.

Ogallala holds 492 of the 857 homes in ZIP Code 69147 · Belmar, Nebraska, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 362 homes with Garden County Schools and 3 homes in districts too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 69146 · Lemoyne, Nebraska the split runs 448 to 99 and the larger part is Ogallala's: the rest is 99 homes with Paxton Consolidated Schools and Arthur County Schools.

ZIP Code 69127 · Brule, Nebraska is close to being two districts in equal parts: Ogallala holds 294 of its 631 homes and South Platte leads the rest. A lookup that picks the larger name is making a coin-toss look like a fact.

Ogallala is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 69155 · Paxton, Nebraska — Paxton Consolidated Schools leads it — and Ogallala holds 21 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

Ogallala 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 — Paxton Consolidated Schools, Garden County Schools and South Platte. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Paxton Consolidated Schools552 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Garden County Schools362 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• South Platte Public Schools335 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Perkins County Schools28 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Arthur County Schools20 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Ogallala in the same ZIP Code areas: Arthur County Schools, Paxton Consolidated Schools, South Platte and Perkins 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.

• Arthur County Schools3 shared ZIP areas
• Paxton Consolidated Schools3 shared ZIP areas
• South Platte Public Schools1 shared ZIP area
• Perkins County Schools1 shared ZIP area
• Garden County Schools1 shared ZIP area

Ogallala and Arthur County Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 69144 · Keystone, Nebraska
• ZIP Code 69146 · Lemoyne, Nebraska
• ZIP Code 69155 · Paxton, Nebraska

Ogallala and Paxton Consolidated Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 69144 · Keystone, Nebraska
• ZIP Code 69146 · Lemoyne, Nebraska
• ZIP Code 69155 · Paxton, Nebraska

Ogallala and South Platte school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 69127 · Brule, Nebraska

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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Where this district sits

• School districts in Nebraska473 of 583 ZIP areas split
• How to find your school district numberNCES ID 3174760

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 6 of the 6 ZIP Code areas Ogallala 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.