Cleveland City School District
Tennessee · runs pre-K through grade 12
NCES ID 4700690 · clevelandschools.org · (423) 472-9571
There is no ZIP Code area where Cleveland City is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 4 of them and shares every one, with 2 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 Cleveland City, 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 boundary20,746
- Residents49,358
- ZIP Code areas it reaches4
- Where it is the only district0
- Where it shares with another district4
- Where it holds under half a percent0
- Land area32 square miles
- Homes per square mile648
The ZIP Code areas it reaches
Every one of the 4 areas where it holds a real share it shares with somebody. Its largest foothold is 37311 at 73% of the homes; the thinnest is 37353, where it holds 3.1% of the homes.
- ZIP Code 37311 · Cleveland, Tennessee73% of the homes
- ZIP Code 37312 · Cleveland, Tennessee65% of the homes
- ZIP Code 37323 · Wildwood Lake, Tennessee15% of the homes
- ZIP Code 37353 · McDonald, Tennessee3.1% of the homes
What one name misses in the areas it leads
Cleveland City 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 8,591 of the 27,412 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.
ZIP Code 37312 · Cleveland, Tennessee is a two-district area: 9,754 of its 15,008 homes are inside Cleveland City, and the other 5,254 homes are with Bradley County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.
Cleveland City holds 9,067 of the 12,404 homes in ZIP Code 37311 · Cleveland, Tennessee, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 3,290 homes with Bradley County and 47 homes in a district too small to name here.
Cleveland City reaches into ZIP Code 37323 · Wildwood Lake, Tennessee with 1,860 of its 12,685 homes, behind Bradley County. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 1,860 homes.
Cleveland City is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 37353 · McDonald, Tennessee — Bradley County leads it — and Cleveland City holds 65 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
Cleveland City 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 — Bradley County and Hamilton County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.
- Bradley County School District21,035 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
- Hamilton County School District320 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
Who it shares ZIP Codes with
These districts appear alongside Cleveland City in the same ZIP Code areas: Bradley County and Hamilton County. 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.
- Bradley County School District4 shared ZIP areas
- Hamilton County School District1 shared ZIP area
Cleveland City and Bradley County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 37311 · Cleveland, Tennessee
- ZIP Code 37312 · Cleveland, Tennessee
- ZIP Code 37323 · Wildwood Lake, Tennessee
- ZIP Code 37353 · McDonald, Tennessee
Cleveland City and Hamilton County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 37353 · McDonald, Tennessee
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 4 ZIP Code areas Cleveland City 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.