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Shelby County School District

Tennessee · runs pre-K through grade 12

Shelby County covers 326,480 of the homes in 40 ZIP Code areas, but its smallest measured presence is a different thing entirely: in ZIP Code area 38004 it holds 33 of 4,093 homes, or 0.8% 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. Below the half-percent line this page draws it reaches 2 further ZIP Code areas, the least of them no homes at all in 72301.

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

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Shelby 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 boundary326,480
  • Residents733,794
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches40
  • Where it is the only district27
  • Where it shares with another district11
  • Where it holds under half a percent2
  • Land area526 square miles
  • Homes per square mile620

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 38016 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 72364 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 38016 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38111 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38115 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38128 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38109 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38116 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38127 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38118 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38018 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38104 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38117 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38114 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38119 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38122 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38106 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38103 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38141 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38107 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38112 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38108 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38120 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38105 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38126 · Memphis, Tennessee100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38132 · Memphis, Tennessee13 of 13 homes
  • ZIP Code 38131 · Memphis, Tennessee5 of 5 homes
  • ZIP Code 38113 · Memphis, Tennessee3 of 3 homes
  • ZIP Code 38152 · Memphis, Tennessee1 of 1 home
  • ZIP Code 38125 · Memphis, Tennessee99% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38134 · Memphis, Tennessee65% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38133 · Bartlett, Tennessee49% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38028 · Arlington, Tennessee41% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38053 · Millington, Tennessee28% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38135 · Bartlett, Tennessee24% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38002 · Lakeland, Tennessee7.3% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38017 · Collierville, Tennessee5.1% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38011 · Brighton, Tennessee1.9% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38138 · Germantown, Tennessee1.6% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 38004 · Atoka, Tennessee0.8% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 72301 · West Memphis, Arkansasno homes at all
  • ZIP Code 72364 · Marion, Arkansasno homes at all

What one name misses where high school is arranged elsewhere

Shelby County is the largest district in 29 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 5,867 of the 318,842 homes those areas hold — though in 27 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

ZIP Code 38134 · Memphis, Tennessee is a two-district area: 10,540 of its 16,158 homes are inside Shelby County, and the other 5,618 homes are with Bartlett City. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

Shelby County holds 16,361 of the 16,610 homes in ZIP Code 38125 · Memphis, Tennessee, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 217 homes with Collierville and 32 homes in a district too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 38016 · Memphis, Tennessee the single-name answer is the true one: Shelby County holds all 20,553 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

ZIP Code 38018 · Memphis, Tennessee is another area where one name covers everything — 15,401 homes, all of them inside Shelby County.

ZIP Code 38133 · Bartlett, Tennessee is close to being two districts in equal parts: Shelby County holds 3,985 of its 8,210 homes and Bartlett City leads the rest. A lookup that picks the larger name is making a coin-toss look like a fact.

Shelby County reaches into ZIP Code 38053 · Millington, Tennessee with 3,132 of its 11,131 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Millington Municipal leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 3,132 homes.

Shelby County reaches into ZIP Code 38135 · Bartlett, Tennessee with 2,752 of its 11,233 homes, behind Bartlett City. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 2,752 homes.

ZIP Code 38028 · Arlington, Tennessee is another area where Shelby County is present without being the answer: 1,178 of its 2,854 homes, behind Fayette County.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Shelby 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 — Bartlett City, Collierville and Germantown Municipal. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Bartlett City School District21,902 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Collierville School District18,354 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Germantown Municipal School District10,764 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • West Memphis School District9,940 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Tipton County School District8,700 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Marion School District7,648 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Shelby County shares ZIP Code areas with 8 different districts. The most frequent are Bartlett City, Millington Municipal, Fayette County and Tipton County. 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.

  • Bartlett City School District4 shared ZIP areas
  • Millington Municipal School District3 shared ZIP areas
  • Fayette County School District3 shared ZIP areas
  • Tipton County School District3 shared ZIP areas
  • Collierville School District2 shared ZIP areas
  • Arlington Community School District2 shared ZIP areas

Where this district sits

What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address. A district settles that question on its own site: look for a school locator, a find my school tool, or an attendance zone map. Where there is none, ask the office itself.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: in 11 of the 40 ZIP Code areas Shelby 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.

This site links to no district website. None of the federal files it is built from publishes one, and a guessed address is worse than none. It is the district office, not a search engine, that settles an address.

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.

What this cannot tell you

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file. Nothing on this page adjusts one to the other. Where houses have been built or cleared since the count, a share here describes the place as it was counted rather than as it stands today, and in the fastest-growing ZIP Code areas that gap is the largest single source of error on this site.

A share on this page is a share of the homes in the ZIP Code area, not a probability for any particular address. Enrollment is decided by street address, and a district may run magnet, charter or choice programs that ignore the boundary entirely. If a decision depends on the answer, the district office is the only authority; this page shows what the federal boundary files say and when they were published.

A district boundary is not a school attendance zone. This site never says which school an address is assigned to: no current national dataset of attendance zones exists, and the district draws them itself. Nor is anything here endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau; we use their published files, and that is the whole of the relationship.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not an area. What is mapped here is the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Area, the closest published approximation to it. The two are not identical, and a handful of ZIP Codes used only for post office boxes or single buildings have no tabulation area at all.

Where these numbers come from

School district boundaries come from the Census Bureau's Census Geographic Relationship File, current 2026 vintage, which assigns every census block to a unified district or to an elementary and a secondary district. Homes and residents in each block come from the 2020 Census Redistricting Data (PL 94-171), H1_001 and P1_001. The ZIP Code areas come from the same Geographic Relationship File, block to ZIP Code Tabulation Area. District names and grade ranges come from the Census Gazetteer 2025, with 2020 for districts no longer listed.

The place name printed beside a ZIP Code comes from the Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Area relationship files: place, county subdivision and county, taken 2026-09-06. It is a label rather than a measurement: the Census Bureau does not publish which post office a ZIP Code belongs to, so the place named is the one covering the most land inside the area, not the city the Postal Service prints on an envelope.

Everything else on this page — the shares, the counts of districts per ZIP, the comparison between the two grade bands, the rankings — is computed here from those files. The source publishes none of it. Snapshot taken 2026-09-03.