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Rhea County School District

Tennessee · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 4703510 · rheacounty.org · (423) 775-7813

There is no ZIP Code area where Rhea County School District is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 6 of them and shares every one, with 6 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 Rhea County School District, 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 boundary11,617
  • Residents24,792
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches6
  • Where it is the only district0
  • Where it shares with another district6
  • Where it holds under half a percent0
  • Land area307 square miles
  • Homes per square mile38

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 37332 this district holds 92% of the homes; in 37373 it holds 2.1% 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 37332 · Rhea County, Tennessee92% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 37381 · Spring City, Tennessee90% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 37337 · Rhea County, Tennessee60% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 37321 · Dayton, Tennessee58% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 37338 · Graysville, Tennessee41% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 37373 · Sale Creek, Tennessee2.1% of the homes

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Rhea County School District is the largest district in 5 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 5,327 of the 16,913 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.

Rhea County School District holds 4,975 of the 8,559 homes in ZIP Code 37321 · Dayton, Tennessee, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 3,584 homes with Dayton City Elementary and Bledsoe County.

Rhea County School District is the largest name in ZIP Code 37338 · Graysville, Tennessee and still holds a minority of it: 585 of 1,444 homes. The other 859 homes are with Bledsoe County, Sequatchie County and Hamilton County. 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 37381 · Spring City, Tennessee is a two-district area: 4,481 of its 4,965 homes are inside Rhea County School District, and the other 484 homes are with Bledsoe County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 37337 · Rhea County, Tennessee the split runs 472 to 312 and the larger part is Rhea County School District's: the rest is 312 homes with Cumberland County and Bledsoe County.

Rhea County School District is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 37373 · Sale Creek, Tennessee — Hamilton County leads it — and Rhea County School District holds 31 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

Rhea County School District 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 — Dayton City Elementary, Rhea County School District in Dayton and Hamilton County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Dayton City Elementary School District3,546 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Rhea County School District in Dayton3,546 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Hamilton County School District1,461 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Bledsoe County School District1,058 homes in 5 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Sequatchie County School District391 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Cumberland County School District300 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Rhea County School District shares ZIP Code areas with 6 different districts. The most frequent are Bledsoe County, Dayton City Elementary, Hamilton County and Rhea County School District in Dayton. 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.

  • Bledsoe County School District5 shared ZIP areas
  • Dayton City Elementary School District2 shared ZIP areas
  • Hamilton County School District2 shared ZIP areas
  • Rhea County School District in Dayton2 shared ZIP areas
  • Cumberland County School District1 shared ZIP area
  • Sequatchie County School District1 shared ZIP area

Rhea County School District and Bledsoe County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 37321 · Dayton, Tennessee
  • ZIP Code 37332 · Rhea County, Tennessee
  • ZIP Code 37337 · Rhea County, Tennessee
  • ZIP Code 37338 · Graysville, Tennessee
  • ZIP Code 37381 · Spring City, Tennessee

Rhea County School District and Dayton City Elementary school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 37321 · Dayton, Tennessee
  • ZIP Code 37332 · Rhea County, Tennessee

Rhea County School District and Hamilton County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 37338 · Graysville, Tennessee
  • ZIP Code 37373 · Sale Creek, Tennessee

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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 6 of the 6 ZIP Code areas Rhea County School District 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.