White River Unified School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

2,597 homes hold 4,817 residents, about 1.9 people each. Where households are small, a district's share of the homes overstates its share of the children, and this page counts homes.

• Homes inside the boundary2,597
• Residents4,817
• ZIP Code areas it reaches4
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district4
• Where it holds under half a percent0
• Land area86 square miles
• Homes per square mile30

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

Every one of the 4 areas where it holds a real share it shares with somebody. Its largest foothold is 05032 at 79% of the homes; the thinnest is 05061, where it holds 4.6% of the homes.

• ZIP Code 05032 · Bethel, Vermont79% of the homes
• ZIP Code 05068 · South Royalton, Vermont74% of the homes
• ZIP Code 05060 · Randolph, Vermont6.1% of the homes
• ZIP Code 05061 · Randolph, Vermont4.6% of the homes

What one name misses where high school is arranged elsewhere

White River Unified is the largest district in 2 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 761 of the 3,184 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.

White River Unified is one of 4 districts the file names for ZIP Code 05068 · South Royalton, Vermont at that level. It holds 1,314 of the 1,776 homes there; the rest is 462 homes with Sharon, Mountain Views Unified Union and First Branch Unified. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 462 of the homes in it.

White River Unified holds 1,109 of the 1,408 homes in ZIP Code 05032 · Bethel, Vermont, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 299 homes with Mountain Views Unified Union and Rochester Stockbridge Unified.

White River Unified is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 05060 · Randolph, Vermont — Orange Southwest Unified leads it — and White River Unified holds 142 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 05061 · Randolph, Vermont is another area where White River Unified is present without being the answer: 32 of its 692 homes, behind Orange Southwest Unified.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

White River Unified 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 — Orange Southwest Unified, Mountain Views Unified Union and Sharon. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Orange Southwest Unified School District2,722 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Mountain Views Unified Union School District514 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Sharon School District227 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Montpelier Roxbury Unified Union School District58 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Rochester Stockbridge Unified School District57 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• First Branch Unified School District35 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

White River Unified shares ZIP Code areas with 6 different districts. The most frequent are Orange Southwest Unified, Rochester Stockbridge Unified, First Branch Unified and Mountain Views Unified Union. 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.

• Orange Southwest Unified School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Rochester Stockbridge Unified School District2 shared ZIP areas
• First Branch Unified School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Mountain Views Unified Union School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Montpelier Roxbury Unified Union School District1 shared ZIP area
• Sharon School District1 shared ZIP area

White River Unified and Orange Southwest Unified school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 05060 · Randolph, Vermont
• ZIP Code 05061 · Randolph, Vermont

White River Unified and Rochester Stockbridge Unified school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 05032 · Bethel, Vermont
• ZIP Code 05060 · Randolph, Vermont

White River Unified and First Branch Unified school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 05061 · Randolph, Vermont
• ZIP Code 05068 · South Royalton, Vermont

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.

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Where this district sits

• School districts in Vermont167 of 264 ZIP areas split
• How to find your school district numberNCES ID 5000426

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 4 of the 4 ZIP Code areas White River Unified 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.