Appleton Area School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

At 990 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Appleton Area covers 44 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 boundary43,507
• Residents100,962
• ZIP Code areas it reaches5
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district5
• Where it holds under half a percent0
• Land area44 square miles
• Homes per square mile990

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

Every one of the 5 areas where it holds a real share it shares with somebody. Its largest foothold is 54911 at 98% of the homes; the thinnest is 54952, where it holds 8.7% of the homes.

• ZIP Code 54911 · Appleton, Wisconsin98% of the homes
• ZIP Code 54914 · Appleton, Wisconsin94% of the homes
• ZIP Code 54913 · Appleton, Wisconsin72% of the homes
• ZIP Code 54915 · Appleton, Wisconsin61% of the homes
• ZIP Code 54952 · Harrison, Wisconsin8.7% of the homes

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Appleton Area 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 10,580 of the 53,037 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.

Appleton Area is one of 4 districts the file names for ZIP Code 54915 · Appleton, Wisconsin at that level. It holds 10,594 of the 17,461 homes there; the rest is 6,867 homes with Kimberly Area, Menasha and Kaukauna Area. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 6,867 of the homes in it.

ZIP Code 54913 · Appleton, Wisconsin repeats the pattern with 4 names holding a real share: 7,225 of its 9,969 homes are Appleton Area's, and the other 2,744 are not.

Appleton Area holds 12,992 of the 13,772 homes in ZIP Code 54914 · Appleton, Wisconsin, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 780 homes with Hortonville and Neenah.

In ZIP Code 54911 · Appleton, Wisconsin the split runs 11,646 to 189 and the larger part is Appleton Area's: the rest is 189 homes with Little Chute Area.

Appleton Area is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 54952 · Harrison, Wisconsin — Menasha leads it — and Appleton Area holds 1,050 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Appleton Area 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 — Menasha, Kimberly Area and Freedom Area. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Menasha School District11,627 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Kimberly Area School District5,528 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Freedom Area School District1,637 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Hortonville School District1,195 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Kaukauna Area School District1,007 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Neenah School District360 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Appleton Area shares ZIP Code areas with 8 different districts. The most frequent are Kaukauna Area, Hortonville, Kimberly Area and Menasha. 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.

• Kaukauna Area School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Hortonville School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Kimberly Area School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Menasha School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Freedom Area School District1 shared ZIP area
• Hilbert School District1 shared ZIP area

Appleton Area and Kaukauna Area school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 54913 · Appleton, Wisconsin
• ZIP Code 54915 · Appleton, Wisconsin
• ZIP Code 54952 · Harrison, Wisconsin

Appleton Area and Hortonville school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 54913 · Appleton, Wisconsin
• ZIP Code 54914 · Appleton, Wisconsin

Appleton Area and Kimberly Area school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 54915 · Appleton, Wisconsin
• ZIP Code 54952 · Harrison, Wisconsin

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 Wisconsin600 of 781 ZIP areas split
• How to find your school district numberNCES ID 5500390

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 5 of the 5 ZIP Code areas Appleton Area 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.