Prince Edward County Public Schools

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

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Prince Edward 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 boundary9,087
• Residents21,849
• ZIP Code areas it reaches12
• Where it is the only district2
• Where it shares with another district10
• Where it holds under half a percent0
• Land area350 square miles
• Homes per square mile26

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 23943 this district holds 22 of 22 homes; in 23923 it holds 3.7% 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 23943 · Hampden-Sydney, Virginia22 of 22 homes
• ZIP Code 23909 · Farmville, Virginia5 of 5 homes
• ZIP Code 23960 · Prince Edward County, Virginia99% of the homes
• ZIP Code 23966 · Prince Edward County, Virginia91% of the homes
• ZIP Code 23954 · Prince Edward County, Virginia73% of the homes
• ZIP Code 23942 · Prince Edward County, Virginia73% of the homes
• ZIP Code 23901 · Farmville, Virginia70% of the homes
• ZIP Code 23934 · Prince Edward County, Virginia48% of the homes
• ZIP Code 23958 · Pamplin City, Virginia48% of the homes
• ZIP Code 23922 · Burkeville, Virginia22% of the homes
• ZIP Code 23947 · Keysville, Virginia9.5% of the homes
• ZIP Code 23923 · Charlotte Court House, Virginia3.7% of the homes

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Prince Edward County is the largest district in 8 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 3,405 of the 11,830 homes those areas hold — though in 2 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Prince Edward County holds 4,657 of the 6,678 homes in ZIP Code 23901 · Farmville, Virginia, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 2,021 homes with Cumberland County and Buckingham County.

Prince Edward County is the largest name in ZIP Code 23958 · Pamplin City, Virginia and still holds a minority of it: 772 of 1,623 homes. The other 851 homes are with Appomattox County and Charlotte 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 23954 · Prince Edward County, Virginia is a two-district area: 726 of its 998 homes are inside Prince Edward County, and the other 272 homes are with Lunenburg County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 23942 · Prince Edward County, Virginia the split runs 400 to 150 and the larger part is Prince Edward County's: the rest is 150 homes with Lunenburg County.

In ZIP Code 23966 · Prince Edward County, Virginia the split runs 998 to 99 and the larger part is Prince Edward County's: the rest is 99 homes with Amelia County and Nottoway County.

Prince Edward County reaches into ZIP Code 23922 · Burkeville, Virginia with 230 of its 1,034 homes, behind Nottoway County. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 230 homes.

Prince Edward County is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 23947 · Keysville, Virginia — Charlotte County leads it — and Prince Edward County holds 208 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 23934 · Prince Edward County, Virginia is close to being two districts in equal parts: Prince Edward County holds 180 of its 377 homes and Charlotte County leads the rest. A lookup that picks the larger name is making a coin-toss look like a fact.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Prince Edward 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 — Charlotte County, Cumberland County and Lunenburg County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Charlotte County Public Schools2,652 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
• Cumberland County Public Schools1,546 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Lunenburg County Public Schools1,190 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Nottoway County Public Schools810 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Appomattox County Public Schools765 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Buckingham County Public Schools475 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Prince Edward County shares ZIP Code areas with 7 different districts. The most frequent are Charlotte County, Lunenburg County, Appomattox County and Nottoway 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.

• Charlotte County Public Schools4 shared ZIP areas
• Lunenburg County Public Schools3 shared ZIP areas
• Appomattox County Public Schools2 shared ZIP areas
• Nottoway County Public Schools2 shared ZIP areas
• Amelia County Public Schools1 shared ZIP area
• Buckingham County Public Schools1 shared ZIP area

Where this district sits

• School districts in Virginia294 of 895 ZIP areas split
• Every district with a page here260 districts listed

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 10 of the 12 ZIP Code areas Prince Edward 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.