Lakota Local School District
Ohio · runs pre-K through grade 12
NCES ID 3904611 · lakotaonline.com · (513) 874-5505
There is no ZIP Code area where Lakota Local is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 5 of them and shares every one, with 10 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 Lakota Local, 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 boundary38,033
- Residents104,217
- ZIP Code areas it reaches7
- Where it is the only district0
- Where it shares with another district5
- Where it holds under half a percent2
- Land area63 square miles
- Homes per square mile604
The ZIP Code areas it reaches
The spread is the thing to notice. In 45069 this district holds 99% of the homes; in 45014 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 45069 · Beckett Ridge, Ohio99% of the homes
- ZIP Code 45011 · Hamilton, Ohio32% of the homes
- ZIP Code 45044 · Middletown, Ohio28% of the homes
- ZIP Code 45241 · Sharonville, Ohio20% of the homes
- ZIP Code 45050 · Monroe, Ohio5.6% of the homes
- ZIP Code 45246 · Springdale, Ohio22 homes, under half a percent
- ZIP Code 45014 · Fairfield, Ohio1 home, under half a percent
The areas it leads without holding most of the homes
Lakota Local is the largest district in 2 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 18,792 of the 48,194 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.
Lakota Local is the largest name in ZIP Code 45011 · Hamilton, Ohio and still holds a minority of it: 8,664 of 27,178 homes. The other 18,514 homes are with Fairfield City, Hamilton City, New Miami Local and 2 more districts. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.
Lakota Local holds 20,738 of the 21,016 homes in ZIP Code 45069 · Beckett Ridge, Ohio, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 278 homes with Mason City.
In ZIP Code 45044 · Middletown, Ohio this district is one name among 4. Middletown City leads with the largest share and Lakota Local holds 6,269 of the 22,313 homes counted there; no single name describes that area at all.
Lakota Local reaches into ZIP Code 45241 · Sharonville, Ohio with 2,084 of its 10,555 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Princeton City leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 2,084 homes.
Lakota Local is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 45050 · Monroe, Ohio — Monroe Local leads it — and Lakota Local holds 255 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
Lakota Local 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 — Fairfield City, Middletown City and Princeton City. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.
- Fairfield City School District26,920 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
- Middletown City School District14,314 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
- Princeton City School District13,976 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
- Hamilton City School District7,895 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
- Monroe Local School District5,763 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
- Sycamore Community City School District1,249 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
Who it shares ZIP Codes with
Lakota Local shares ZIP Code areas with 10 different districts. The most frequent are Monroe Local, Middletown City, Hamilton City and Lebanon City. In a neighborhood this crowded the question is not which district serves the ZIP Code but which side of which street an address is on.
- Monroe Local School District3 shared ZIP areas
- Middletown City School District2 shared ZIP areas
- Hamilton City School District1 shared ZIP area
- Lebanon City School District1 shared ZIP area
- Princeton City School District1 shared ZIP area
- Sycamore Community City School District1 shared ZIP area
Lakota Local and Monroe Local school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 45011 · Hamilton, Ohio
- ZIP Code 45044 · Middletown, Ohio
- ZIP Code 45050 · Monroe, Ohio
Lakota Local and Middletown City school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 45044 · Middletown, Ohio
- ZIP Code 45050 · Monroe, Ohio
Lakota Local and Hamilton City school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 45011 · Hamilton, Ohio
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 5 of the 7 ZIP Code areas Lakota Local 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.