Three Rivers School District
Oregon · runs kindergarten through grade 12
NCES ID 4106900 · threerivers.k12.or.us · (541) 862-3111
Three Rivers is the only school district serving 7 of the 11 ZIP Code areas it touches, and shares the other 4 with neighbors. It covers 22,773 homes and 49,975 residents. By homes covered it ranks 19th of the 197 districts in Oregon. The district it shares ZIP Codes with most often is Rogue River School District 35, in 3 of them.
Where this district is the answer, and where it is not
Three Rivers covers 1,708 square miles, and the ZIP Code areas inside it are small by comparison. Its 22,773 homes are spread thinly enough that the postal map and the school map have little reason to agree anywhere.
- Homes inside the boundary22,773
- Residents49,975
- ZIP Code areas it reaches11
- Where it is the only district7
- Where it shares with another district4
- Where it holds under half a percent0
- Land area1,708 square miles
- Homes per square mile13
The ZIP Code areas it reaches
It is the only district serving 7 of them and shares the other 4. It holds 100% of the homes in 97523 and 11% of the homes in 97530; each entry below says how much of that area's homes it holds, and the rest belong to somebody else.
- ZIP Code 97523 · Takilma, Oregon100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 97532 · Merlin, Oregon100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 97544 · Williams, Oregon100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 97538 · Selma, Oregon100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 97543 · Josephine County, Oregon100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 97534 · O'Brien, Oregon100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 97531 · Kerby, Oregon100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 97497 · Josephine County, Oregon99% of the homes
- ZIP Code 97527 · Grants Pass, Oregon49% of the homes
- ZIP Code 97526 · Grants Pass, Oregon41% of the homes
- ZIP Code 97530 · Ruch, Oregon11% of the homes
The areas it leads without holding most of the homes
Three Rivers is the largest district in 9 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 7,926 of the 23,697 homes those areas hold — though in 7 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.
Three Rivers is the largest name in ZIP Code 97527 · Grants Pass, Oregon and still holds a minority of it: 7,727 of 15,643 homes. The other 7,916 homes are with Grants Pass School District 7 and Rogue River School District 35. 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 97497 · Josephine County, Oregon is a two-district area: 701 of its 711 homes are inside Three Rivers, and the other 10 homes are with Rogue River School District 35. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.
In ZIP Code 97523 · Takilma, Oregon the single-name answer is the true one: Three Rivers holds all 3,164 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.
ZIP Code 97531 · Kerby, Oregon is another area where one name covers everything — 275 homes, all of them inside Three Rivers.
Three Rivers reaches into ZIP Code 97526 · Grants Pass, Oregon with 6,585 of its 15,923 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Grants Pass School District 7 leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 6,585 homes.
Three Rivers reaches into ZIP Code 97530 · Ruch, Oregon with 417 of its 3,719 homes, behind Medford School District 549. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 417 homes.
Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes
Three Rivers runs kindergarten 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 — Grants Pass School District 7, Medford School District 549 and Rogue River School District 35. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.
- Grants Pass School District 716,603 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
- Medford School District 5493,301 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
- Rogue River School District 35661 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
Who it shares ZIP Codes with
These districts appear alongside Three Rivers in the same ZIP Code areas: Rogue River School District 35, Grants Pass School District 7 and Medford School District 549. 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.
- Rogue River School District 353 shared ZIP areas
- Grants Pass School District 72 shared ZIP areas
- Medford School District 5491 shared ZIP area
Three Rivers and Rogue River School District 35 school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 97497 · Josephine County, Oregon
- ZIP Code 97526 · Grants Pass, Oregon
- ZIP Code 97527 · Grants Pass, Oregon
Three Rivers and Grants Pass School District 7 school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 97526 · Grants Pass, Oregon
- ZIP Code 97527 · Grants Pass, Oregon
Three Rivers and Medford School District 549 school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 97530 · Ruch, Oregon
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 4 of the 11 ZIP Code areas Three Rivers 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.