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Rockbridge County Public Schools

Virginia · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 5103370 · rockbridge.k12.va.us · (540) 463-7386

Rockbridge County is the only school district serving 6 of the 13 ZIP Code areas it touches, and shares the other 7 with neighbors. It covers 11,261 homes and 22,650 residents. By homes covered it ranks 69th of the 136 districts in Virginia. The district it shares ZIP Codes with most often is Augusta County, in 3 of them.

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

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Rockbridge 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 boundary11,261
  • Residents22,650
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches13
  • Where it is the only district6
  • Where it shares with another district7
  • Where it holds under half a percent0
  • Land area597 square miles
  • Homes per square mile19

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 24555 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 24066 it holds 1.8% 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 24555 · Glasgow, Virginia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 24435 · Fairfield, Virginia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 24579 · Rockbridge County, Virginia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 24473 · Rockbridge County, Virginia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 24578 · Rockbridge County, Virginia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 24415 · Rockbridge County, Virginia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 24439 · Goshen, Virginia83% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 24450 · Lexington, Virginia66% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 24483 · Rockbridge County, Virginia66% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 24472 · Fairfield, Virginia62% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 24416 · Buena Vista, Virginia26% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 24459 · Middlebrook, Virginia10.0% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 24066 · Buchanan, Virginia1.8% of the homes

What one name misses where high school is arranged elsewhere

Rockbridge County is the largest district in 10 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 3,322 of the 13,490 homes those areas hold — though in 6 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Rockbridge County holds 4,998 of the 7,616 homes in ZIP Code 24450 · Lexington, Virginia, and 2,617 of the homes counted there have no high school district named for them in the federal file at all. A lookup that answers with one name misses 2,618 of them, and it also misses the arrangement: the only high school district the file names here is Rockbridge County.

ZIP Code 24472 · Fairfield, Virginia is a two-district area: 742 of its 1,193 homes are inside Rockbridge County, and the other 451 homes are with Augusta County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

Rockbridge County holds 272 of the 415 homes in ZIP Code 24483 · Rockbridge County, Virginia, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 143 homes with Amherst County and Nelson County.

In ZIP Code 24439 · Goshen, Virginia the split runs 550 to 110 and the larger part is Rockbridge County's: the rest is 110 homes with Augusta County.

In ZIP Code 24415 · Rockbridge County, Virginia the single-name answer is the true one: Rockbridge County holds all 48 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

Rockbridge County reaches into ZIP Code 24416 · Buena Vista, Virginia with 1,015 of its 3,963 homes, behind Buena Vista City. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 1,015 homes.

Rockbridge County is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 24066 · Buchanan, Virginia — Botetourt County leads it — and Rockbridge County holds 42 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 24459 · Middlebrook, Virginia is another area where Rockbridge County is present without being the answer: 36 of its 361 homes, behind Augusta County.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Rockbridge 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 — Buena Vista City, Lexington City and Botetourt County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Buena Vista City Public Schools2,948 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Lexington City Public Schools2,617 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Botetourt County Public Schools2,334 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Augusta County Public Schools886 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Amherst County Public Schools89 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Nelson County Public Schools54 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Rockbridge County shares ZIP Code areas with 6 different districts. The most frequent are Augusta County, Amherst County, Botetourt County and Buena Vista City. 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.

  • Augusta County Public Schools3 shared ZIP areas
  • Amherst County Public Schools1 shared ZIP area
  • Botetourt County Public Schools1 shared ZIP area
  • Buena Vista City Public Schools1 shared ZIP area
  • Lexington City Public Schools1 shared ZIP area
  • Nelson County Public Schools1 shared ZIP area

Rockbridge County and Augusta County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 24439 · Goshen, Virginia
  • ZIP Code 24459 · Middlebrook, Virginia
  • ZIP Code 24472 · Fairfield, Virginia

Rockbridge County and Amherst County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 24483 · Rockbridge County, Virginia

Rockbridge County and Botetourt County school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 24066 · Buchanan, 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 7 of the 13 ZIP Code areas Rockbridge 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.