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Roane County School District

Tennessee · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 4703590 · roaneschools.com · (865) 376-5592

Roane County is the only school district serving 1 of the 10 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 7 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 2. It covers 23,805 homes and 49,756 residents. By homes covered it ranks 28th of the 156 districts in Tennessee.

Where this district is the answer, and where it is not

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Roane County, 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 boundary23,805
  • Residents49,756
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches10
  • Where it is the only district1
  • Where it shares with another district7
  • Where it holds under half a percent2
  • Land area319 square miles
  • Homes per square mile75

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 37763 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 37830 it holds no homes at all. 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 37763 · Kingston, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 37748 · Coalfield, Tennessee90% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 37854 · Rockwood, Tennessee81% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 37880 · Meigs County, Tennessee40% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 37840 · Coalfield, Tennessee38% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 37846 · Philadelphia, Tennessee31% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 37771 · Lenoir City, Tennessee7.6% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 37774 · Loudon, Tennessee5.5% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 37874 · Sweetwater, Tennessee11 homes, under half a percent
  • ZIP Code 37830 · Oak Ridge, Tennesseeno homes at all

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Roane County is the largest district in 4 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 4,588 of the 25,766 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.

Roane County is the largest name in ZIP Code 37840 · Coalfield, Tennessee and still holds a minority of it: 1,605 of 4,248 homes. The other 2,643 homes are with Anderson County School District and Morgan County. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

Roane County holds 4,961 of the 6,110 homes in ZIP Code 37854 · Rockwood, Tennessee, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 1,149 homes with Cumberland County and Morgan County.

In ZIP Code 37748 · Coalfield, Tennessee the split runs 7,394 to 795 and the larger part is Roane County's: the rest is 795 homes with Morgan County.

ZIP Code 37763 · Kingston, Tennessee is a two-district area: 7,218 of its 7,219 homes are inside Roane County, and the other 1 home is in a district too small to name here. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

ZIP Code 37880 · Meigs County, Tennessee is close to being two districts in equal parts: Roane County holds 886 of its 2,200 homes and Meigs County leads the rest. A lookup that picks the larger name is making a coin-toss look like a fact.

In ZIP Code 37846 · Philadelphia, Tennessee this district is one name among 6. Loudon County leads with the largest share and Roane County holds 647 of the 2,080 homes counted there; no single name describes that area at all.

Roane County is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 37774 · Loudon, Tennessee — Loudon County leads it — and Roane County holds 544 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 37771 · Lenoir City, Tennessee is another area where Roane County is present without being the answer: 539 of its 7,096 homes, behind Lenoir City.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Roane County 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 — Oak Ridge City, Loudon County and Sweetwater City. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Oak Ridge City School District14,677 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Loudon County School District13,135 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Sweetwater City School District5,487 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Monroe County School District in Sweetwater5,487 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Lenoir City School District3,774 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Morgan County School District2,219 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Roane County shares ZIP Code areas with 10 different districts. The most frequent are Loudon County, Morgan County, Monroe County School District and Anderson County School District. 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.

  • Loudon County School District3 shared ZIP areas
  • Morgan County School District3 shared ZIP areas
  • Monroe County School District2 shared ZIP areas
  • Anderson County School District1 shared ZIP area
  • Cumberland County School District1 shared ZIP area
  • Lenoir City School District1 shared ZIP area

Roane County and Loudon County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 37771 · Lenoir City, Tennessee
  • ZIP Code 37774 · Loudon, Tennessee
  • ZIP Code 37846 · Philadelphia, Tennessee

Roane County and Morgan County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 37748 · Coalfield, Tennessee
  • ZIP Code 37840 · Coalfield, Tennessee
  • ZIP Code 37854 · Rockwood, Tennessee

Roane County and Monroe County School District school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 37774 · Loudon, Tennessee
  • ZIP Code 37846 · Philadelphia, 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 7 of the 10 ZIP Code areas Roane County 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.