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Murfreesboro City School District

Tennessee · runs pre-K through grade 6

NCES ID 4703150 · cityschools.net/administration/director · (615) 893-2313

There is no ZIP Code area where Murfreesboro City is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 5 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

At 981 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Murfreesboro City covers 64 square miles in all — small enough that a single ZIP Code area can hold most of it, and several ZIP Codes can cut across it.

  • Homes inside the boundary63,194
  • Residents153,749
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches6
  • Where it is the only district0
  • Where it shares with another district5
  • Where it holds under half a percent1
  • Land area64 square miles
  • Homes per square mile981

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 37132 this district holds 15 of 15 homes; in 37153 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 37132 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee15 of 15 homes
  • ZIP Code 37130 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee87% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 37128 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee81% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 37129 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee61% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 37127 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee50% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 37153 · Rockvale, Tennessee1 home, under half a percent

What one name misses, and what changes later

Murfreesboro City is the largest district in 5 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the grade school answer misses 21,718 of the 84,911 homes those areas hold — though in 1 of them it holds every home there is for grade school. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Murfreesboro City holds 14,623 of the 23,914 homes in ZIP Code 37129 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee, so its name is the right grade school answer for most of the area and the wrong one for the rest: 9,290 homes with Rutherford County School District and 1 home in a district too small to name here.

ZIP Code 37128 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee is a two-district area for grade school: 22,208 of its 27,463 homes are inside Murfreesboro City, and the other 5,255 homes are with Rutherford County School District. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 37127 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee the split runs 3,921 to 3,876 and the larger part is Murfreesboro City's: the rest is 3,876 homes with Rutherford County School District.

Murfreesboro City holds all 15 homes counted for grade school in ZIP Code 37132 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and no other grade school district holds a share worth naming. For high school the same homes are named for Rutherford County School District in Murfreesboro (15 homes), so a single name answers only one of the two questions there.

Every address here goes on to one high school district

Students leaving Murfreesboro City after its last grade go on to Rutherford County School District in Murfreesboro: it is the only secondary district the file names in the ZIP Code areas it covers. That is why an address here carries two district names rather than one, and why a lookup naming either of them is answering half the question.

  • Rutherford County School District in Murfreesboro100% of Murfreesboro City's homes go here

This list is an estimate, names as well as percentages. The snapshot behind this site keeps the homes each district holds in each ZIP Code area, not the pair of districts on each census block, so a district is listed here when it runs the other band in a ZIP Code area this one shares, and each percentage spreads that area's homes across those districts in proportion to the share each holds there. Unified districts are left out: a block in a unified district belongs to no elementary or secondary district. Read the percentages as the size of the crossing, not as a count of houses.

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Murfreesboro City appears alongside a mix of district kinds — Rutherford County School District in Murfreesboro and Rutherford County School District. A unified district runs every grade itself, so an address inside it belongs to no elementary or secondary district; where an elementary and a secondary district meet, one takes the lower grades and the other takes high school, and a household may be served by both.

  • Rutherford County School District in Murfreesboro5 shared ZIP areas
  • Rutherford County School District4 shared ZIP areas

Murfreesboro City and Rutherford County School District in Murfreesboro school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 37127 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee
  • ZIP Code 37128 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee
  • ZIP Code 37129 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee
  • ZIP Code 37130 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee
  • ZIP Code 37132 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Murfreesboro City and Rutherford County School District school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 37127 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee
  • ZIP Code 37128 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee
  • ZIP Code 37129 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee
  • ZIP Code 37130 · Murfreesboro, 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.

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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 6 ZIP Code areas Murfreesboro 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.