DistrictByZip Every school district that touches your ZIP Code

South Kingstown School District

Rhode Island · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 4401020 · (401) 360-1300

South Kingstown covers 13,771 of the homes in 5 ZIP Code areas, but its smallest measured presence is a different thing entirely: in ZIP Code area 02813 it holds 35 of 5,416 homes, or 0.6% 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.

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

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to South Kingstown, 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 boundary13,771
  • Residents31,931
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches5
  • Where it is the only district1
  • Where it shares with another district4
  • Where it holds under half a percent0
  • Land area56 square miles
  • Homes per square mile244

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 02881 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 02813 it holds 0.6% 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 02881 · Kingston, Rhode Island100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 02879 · Wakefield-Peace Dale, Rhode Island99% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 02892 · Richmond, Rhode Island42% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 02874 · North Kingstown, Rhode Island4.7% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 02813 · Charlestown, Rhode Island0.6% of the homes

What one name misses where high school is arranged elsewhere

South Kingstown is the largest district in 2 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 161 of the 12,886 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.

ZIP Code 02879 · Wakefield-Peace Dale, Rhode Island is a two-district area: 11,583 of its 11,744 homes are inside South Kingstown, and the other 161 homes are with Narragansett. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 02881 · Kingston, Rhode Island the single-name answer is the true one: South Kingstown holds all 1,142 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

South Kingstown reaches into ZIP Code 02892 · Richmond, Rhode Island with 895 of its 2,130 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Chariho Regional leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 895 homes.

South Kingstown is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 02874 · North Kingstown, Rhode Island — North Kingstown leads it — and South Kingstown holds 116 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 02813 · Charlestown, Rhode Island is another area where South Kingstown is present without being the answer: 35 of its 5,416 homes, behind Chariho Regional.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

South Kingstown 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 — Chariho Regional, North Kingstown and Narragansett. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

South Kingstown appears alongside a mix of district kinds — Chariho Regional, Exeter-West Greenwich Regional, Narragansett and North Kingstown. A unified district runs every grade itself, so an address inside it belongs to no elementary or secondary district.

South Kingstown and Chariho Regional school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 02813 · Charlestown, Rhode Island
  • ZIP Code 02892 · Richmond, Rhode Island

South Kingstown and Exeter-West Greenwich Regional school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 02874 · North Kingstown, Rhode Island
  • ZIP Code 02892 · Richmond, Rhode Island

South Kingstown and Narragansett school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 02874 · North Kingstown, Rhode Island
  • ZIP Code 02879 · Wakefield-Peace Dale, Rhode Island

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.

Check an exact address with the Census Geocoder

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 5 ZIP Code areas South Kingstown 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.