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Central York School District

Pennsylvania · runs kindergarten through grade 12

NCES ID 4205490 · cysd.k12.pa.us · (717) 846-6789

Central York covers 14,906 of the homes in 6 ZIP Code areas, but its smallest measured presence is a different thing entirely: in ZIP Code area 17408 it holds 100 of 10,199 homes, or 1.0% of them. An address in that ZIP Code is almost certainly not in this district, and a lookup that names the district without the share says the opposite. Below the half-percent line this page draws it reaches 1 further ZIP Code area, the least of them 34 homes in 17401.

A few homes at the edge of someone else's ZIP Code

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Central York, 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 boundary14,906
  • Residents39,085
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches6
  • Where it is the only district1
  • Where it shares with another district4
  • Where it holds under half a percent1
  • Land area29 square miles
  • Homes per square mile512

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 17318 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 17401 it holds 34 homes, 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 17318 · Emigsville, Pennsylvania100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 17406 · Pleasureville, Pennsylvania51% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 17404 · York, Pennsylvania39% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 17402 · East York, Pennsylvania24% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 17408 · Shiloh, Pennsylvania1.0% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 17401 · York, Pennsylvania34 homes, under half a percent

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Central York is the largest district in 3 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 14,382 of the 25,657 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.

Central York is the largest name in ZIP Code 17404 · York, Pennsylvania and still holds a minority of it: 6,071 of 15,540 homes. The other 9,469 homes are with York City, West York Area and Northeastern York. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

Central York is one of 4 districts the file names for ZIP Code 17406 · Pleasureville, Pennsylvania at that level. It holds 5,013 of the 9,926 homes there; the rest is 4,913 homes with Eastern York, Northeastern York and Red Lion Area. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 4,913 of the homes in it.

In ZIP Code 17318 · Emigsville, Pennsylvania the single-name answer is the true one: Central York holds all 191 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

ZIP Code 17402 · East York, Pennsylvania repeats the pattern with 5 names holding a real share: 3,497 of its 14,840 homes are Central York's, and the other 11,343 are not.

Central York is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 17408 · Shiloh, Pennsylvania — West York Area leads it — and Central York holds 100 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

Central York 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 — York City, West York Area and Dallastown Area. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • York City School District11,925 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • West York Area School District10,583 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Dallastown Area School District5,097 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • York Suburban School District4,249 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Eastern York School District4,112 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Spring Grove Area School District2,817 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Central York shares ZIP Code areas with 9 different districts. The most frequent are Eastern York, Northeastern York, Red Lion Area and West York Area. 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.

  • Eastern York School District2 shared ZIP areas
  • Northeastern York School District2 shared ZIP areas
  • Red Lion Area School District2 shared ZIP areas
  • West York Area School District2 shared ZIP areas
  • Dallastown Area School District1 shared ZIP area
  • Dover Area School District1 shared ZIP area

Central York and Eastern York school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 17402 · East York, Pennsylvania
  • ZIP Code 17406 · Pleasureville, Pennsylvania

Central York and Northeastern York school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 17404 · York, Pennsylvania
  • ZIP Code 17406 · Pleasureville, Pennsylvania

Central York and Red Lion Area school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 17402 · East York, Pennsylvania
  • ZIP Code 17406 · Pleasureville, Pennsylvania

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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 4 of the 6 ZIP Code areas Central York 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.