Kent School District

A few homes at the edge of someone else's ZIP Code

At 980 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Kent covers 66 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 boundary65,070
• Residents179,787
• ZIP Code areas it reaches12
• Where it is the only district2
• Where it shares with another district8
• Where it holds under half a percent2
• Land area66 square miles
• Homes per square mile980

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 98031 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 98188 it holds 3 homes, under half a percent. 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 98031 · Kent, Washington100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 98030 · Kent, Washington100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 98042 · Lake Morton-Berrydale, Washington97% of the homes
• ZIP Code 98032 · Kent, Washington66% of the homes
• ZIP Code 98058 · Fairwood, Washington48% of the homes
• ZIP Code 98010 · Black Diamond, Washington29% of the homes
• ZIP Code 98055 · Renton, Washington4.6% of the homes
• ZIP Code 98198 · Des Moines, Washington2.6% of the homes
• ZIP Code 98092 · Auburn, Washington2.5% of the homes
• ZIP Code 98038 · Hobart, Washington0.7% of the homes
• ZIP Code 98001 · Auburn, Washington26 homes, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 98188 · Tukwila, Washington3 homes, under half a percent

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Kent is the largest district in 5 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 14,263 of the 77,277 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.

Kent is the largest name in ZIP Code 98058 · Fairwood, Washington and still holds a minority of it: 7,854 of 16,350 homes. The other 8,496 homes are with Renton and Tahoma. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

Kent holds 10,238 of the 15,477 homes in ZIP Code 98032 · Kent, Washington, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 5,213 homes with Federal Way and Highline and 26 homes in districts too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 98042 · Lake Morton-Berrydale, Washington the split runs 16,734 to 528 and the larger part is Kent's: the rest is 449 homes with Auburn and 79 homes in a district too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 98030 · Kent, Washington the single-name answer is the true one: Kent holds all 13,679 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

ZIP Code 98031 · Kent, Washington is another area where one name covers everything — 14,509 homes, all of them inside Kent.

Kent reaches into ZIP Code 98010 · Black Diamond, Washington with 634 of its 2,202 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Enumclaw leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 634 homes.

Kent is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 98055 · Renton, Washington — Renton leads it — and Kent holds 472 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 98092 · Auburn, Washington is another area where Kent is present without being the answer: 429 of its 17,375 homes, behind Auburn.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Kent 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 — Highline, Auburn and Renton. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Highline School District21,309 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Auburn School District19,203 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Renton School District16,986 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Federal Way School District15,123 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Tahoma School District14,262 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Tukwila School District3,667 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Kent shares ZIP Code areas with 8 different districts. The most frequent are Tahoma, Enumclaw, Auburn and Federal Way. 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.

• Tahoma School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Enumclaw School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Auburn School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Federal Way School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Highline School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Renton School District2 shared ZIP areas

Where this district sits

• School districts in Washington296 of 600 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 8 of the 12 ZIP Code areas Kent 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.