Falls Church City Public Schools
Virginia · runs pre-K through grade 12
NCES ID 5101290 · fccps.org · (703) 248-5601
There is no ZIP Code area where Falls Church City is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 3 of them and shares every one, with 1 different district 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 3,016 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Falls Church City covers 2 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 boundary6,172
- Residents14,658
- ZIP Code areas it reaches4
- Where it is the only district0
- Where it shares with another district3
- Where it holds under half a percent1
- Land area2 square miles
- Homes per square mile3,016
The ZIP Code areas it reaches
Every one of the 3 areas where it holds a real share it shares with somebody. Its largest foothold is 22046 at 72% of the homes; the thinnest is 22043, where it holds no homes at all.
- ZIP Code 22046 · Falls Church, Virginia72% of the homes
- ZIP Code 22044 · Lake Barcroft, Virginia16% of the homes
- ZIP Code 22042 · West Falls Church, Virginia0.8% of the homes
- ZIP Code 22043 · Idylwood, Virginiano homes at all
What one name misses in the areas it leads
Falls Church City is the largest district in 1 ZIP Code area, and that area is not wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 2,046 of the 7,203 homes that area holds. That count is computed here from census blocks; the lookups that answer this question with a single name never print it.
ZIP Code 22046 · Falls Church, Virginia is a two-district area: 5,157 of its 7,203 homes are inside Falls Church City, and the other 2,046 homes are with Fairfax County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.
Falls Church City reaches into ZIP Code 22044 · Lake Barcroft, Virginia with 913 of its 5,701 homes, behind Fairfax County. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 913 homes.
Falls Church City is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 22042 · West Falls Church, Virginia — Fairfax County leads it — and Falls Church City holds 102 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
Falls Church 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 — Fairfax County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.
Who it shares ZIP Codes with
One district shares ZIP Codes with Falls Church City: Fairfax County, in 3 of them. For those areas a single-name lookup is choosing between exactly two answers, and it does not tell you it is choosing.
Falls Church City and Fairfax County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 22042 · West Falls Church, Virginia
- ZIP Code 22044 · Lake Barcroft, Virginia
- ZIP Code 22046 · Falls Church, Virginia
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 3 of the 4 ZIP Code areas Falls Church 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.