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Louisa County Public Schools

Virginia · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 5102280 · lcps.k12.va.us · (540) 894-5115

There is no ZIP Code area where Louisa County is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 12 of them and shares every one, with 7 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 Louisa 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 boundary17,692
  • Residents38,048
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches12
  • Where it is the only district0
  • Where it shares with another district12
  • Where it holds under half a percent0
  • Land area495 square miles
  • Homes per square mile36

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 23093 this district holds 95% of the homes; in 23015 it holds 0.8% 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 23093 · Louisa, Virginia95% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 23117 · Mineral, Virginia82% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 23024 · Louisa County, Virginia80% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 22942 · Gordonsville, Virginia55% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 23065 · Goochland County, Virginia40% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 22974 · Fluvanna County, Virginia22% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 23084 · Fluvanna County, Virginia13% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 23102 · Goochland County, Virginia11% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 23153 · Goochland County, Virginia8.6% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 23192 · Hanover County, Virginia7.3% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 22947 · Rivanna, Virginia4.6% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 23015 · Hanover County, Virginia0.8% of the homes

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Louisa 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 4,222 of the 20,656 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.

Louisa County holds 2,419 of the 4,395 homes in ZIP Code 22942 · Gordonsville, Virginia, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 1,976 homes with Orange County and Albemarle County.

In ZIP Code 23117 · Mineral, Virginia the split runs 4,609 to 1,031 and the larger part is Louisa County's: the rest is 1,031 homes with Spotsylvania County and Goochland County.

Louisa County reaches into ZIP Code 22974 · Fluvanna County, Virginia with 384 of its 1,775 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Fluvanna County leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 384 homes.

ZIP Code 23065 · Goochland County, Virginia is close to being two districts in equal parts: Louisa County holds 276 of its 687 homes and Goochland County leads the rest. A lookup that picks the larger name is making a coin-toss look like a fact.

Louisa County is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 23192 · Hanover County, Virginia — Hanover County leads it — and Louisa County holds 191 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 23102 · Goochland County, Virginia is another area where Louisa County is present without being the answer: 132 of its 1,185 homes, behind Goochland County.

ZIP Code 22947 · Rivanna, Virginia is another area where Louisa County is present without being the answer: 105 of its 2,298 homes, behind Albemarle County.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Louisa 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 — Hanover County, Goochland County and Albemarle County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Hanover County Public Schools4,006 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Goochland County Public Schools2,625 homes in 6 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Albemarle County Public Schools2,418 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Spotsylvania County Public Schools1,954 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Fluvanna County Public Schools1,837 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Orange County Public Schools1,755 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Louisa County shares ZIP Code areas with 7 different districts. The most frequent are Goochland County, Hanover County, Albemarle County and Fluvanna 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.

  • Goochland County Public Schools6 shared ZIP areas
  • Hanover County Public Schools4 shared ZIP areas
  • Albemarle County Public Schools3 shared ZIP areas
  • Fluvanna County Public Schools3 shared ZIP areas
  • Spotsylvania County Public Schools3 shared ZIP areas
  • Caroline County Public Schools1 shared ZIP area

Louisa County and Goochland County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 23065 · Goochland County, Virginia
  • ZIP Code 23084 · Fluvanna County, Virginia
  • ZIP Code 23093 · Louisa, Virginia
  • ZIP Code 23102 · Goochland County, Virginia
  • ZIP Code 23117 · Mineral, Virginia
  • ZIP Code 23153 · Goochland County, Virginia

Louisa County and Hanover County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 23015 · Hanover County, Virginia
  • ZIP Code 23024 · Louisa County, Virginia
  • ZIP Code 23102 · Goochland County, Virginia
  • ZIP Code 23192 · Hanover County, Virginia

Louisa County and Albemarle County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 22942 · Gordonsville, Virginia
  • ZIP Code 22947 · Rivanna, Virginia
  • ZIP Code 22974 · Fluvanna County, Virginia

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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 12 of the 12 ZIP Code areas Louisa 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.