School districts in Arkansas
62% of the 614 populated ZIP Code areas in Arkansas are served by more than one school district — 379 of them, which puts the state 18th among the fifty-two. It is organized into 234 unified districts, the largest being Little Rock at 89,285 homes. Its most divided ZIP Code area, 72104, is split between 7 districts for elementary grades alone. The two districts that share the most ZIP Codes here are Little Rock and Pulaski County Special, in 7 of them. Counted by homes rather than by ZIP Code area, 79% of the state's housing sits in a ZIP Code that more than one district serves.
How many school districts are in Arkansas?
234: the Census boundary file draws 234 school districts in Arkansas that reach at least one ZIP Code area with homes, 234 unified, 0 elementary and 0 secondary. A ZIP Code here can sit in more than one of them, which is why a school district lookup by ZIP Code for Arkansas lists them all: find your school district by ZIP code.
How often a ZIP Code here crosses a district line
The state is close to the national rate of 53%. Every count below comes from the census blocks in each ZIP Code area rather than from any published table; Little Rock is the largest district in it, at 89,285 homes.
- ZIP Code areas with a district614
- Served by more than one district379 (62%)
- Grade school and high school differ0 (0%)
- No high school district named0
- Unified districts234
- Elementary districts0
- Secondary districts0
- Homes in no district at all0
District pages for Arkansas, largest first
Ranked by the homes inside their boundaries: Little Rock leads at 89,285, then Fayetteville at 45,580 and Jonesboro at 16,387. Only districts with a page here are listed; 228 more in the state have none.
- Little Rock School District89,285 homes · 14 ZIP areas
- Fayetteville School District45,580 homes · 7 ZIP areas
- Jonesboro Public Schools16,387 homes · 5 ZIP areas
- Benton School District12,929 homes · 6 ZIP areas
- Nettleton School District12,437 homes · 5 ZIP areas
- Paragould School District9,396 homes · 5 ZIP areas
The most divided ZIP Code area in Arkansas
ZIP Code area 72104 holds 9,668 homes and 7 districts take a real share of them for the early grades, but Malvern Special holds 69% on its own at that level. This is the shape that makes a single-name lookup look right: it names Malvern Special and describes most of the homes here, and silently not the rest.
Each percentage here is a share of the 9,668 homes counted in ZIP Code 72104, not the chance that any one address is in that district. Enrollment follows the street: two houses on opposite sides of the same road can be in different districts, and only the district office can say which.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 9,668 homes counted in ZIP Code 72104, so one cell is 276 homes, rounded to the nearest whole cell. Cells lit solid are the homes one district holds, and the unlit cells are the homes held by the other districts in the same list.
- Malvern Special School District6,686 of 9,668 homes69%
- Magnet Cove School District1,283 of 9,668 homes13%
- Glen Rose School District1,153 of 9,668 homes12%
- Bismarck Public Schools194 of 9,668 homes2.0%
- Poyen School District131 of 9,668 homes1.4%
- Ouachita School District115 of 9,668 homes1.2%
- Benton School District106 of 9,668 homes1.1%
One further district reaches into this ZIP Code area and holds no homes in it.
For grade school, an answer of one district name would be wrong for 2,982 of the 9,668 here.
How much of Arkansas a single district name misses
Across the 614 ZIP Code areas in Arkansas with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 206,336 of the 1,365,094 homes they hold — 15% of the state. In 208 of those areas the largest district for the early grades holds every home counted; in the other 406 it leaves some out. That is a different count from the 379 areas served by more than one district: it also counts districts under half a percent of the homes and homes in no district, and it does not count a high school district that differs.
ZIP Code 71913 · Hot Springs, Arkansas names 6 districts. Hot Springs is the largest of them for grade school, and an answer of its name alone misses 14,648 of the 25,469 homes there; for grade school the rest is 14,616 homes with Lake Hamilton, Lakeside, Mountain Pine and 2 more districts; 32 homes in districts too small to name here.
ZIP Code 71901 · Hot Springs, Arkansas names 4 districts. Hot Springs is the largest of them for grade school, and an answer of its name alone misses 7,829 of the 14,364 homes there; for grade school the rest is 7,740 homes with Lakeside, Cutter-Morning Star and Fountain Lake; 89 homes in districts too small to name here.
In ZIP Code 72450 · Paragould, Arkansas the largest district for grade school is Paragould, and naming it alone misses 7,510 of the 16,545 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 7,464 homes with Greene County Technical and Marmaduke; 46 homes in a district too small to name here.
Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district
Of the 614 ZIP Code areas in Arkansas that the federal file names a district for, 379 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 7 districts in one postal area: Malvern, Hot Springs and Heber Springs. Each row opens the full answer for that ZIP Code, with every district named for grade school and for high school and the share of the homes each one holds.
- ZIP Code 72104 · Malvern, Arkansas7 districts · 9,668 homes
- ZIP Code 71913 · Hot Springs, Arkansas6 districts · 25,469 homes
- ZIP Code 72543 · Heber Springs, Arkansas6 districts · 7,031 homes
- ZIP Code 72601 · Harrison, Arkansas6 districts · 13,895 homes
- ZIP Code 71730 · El Dorado, Arkansas5 districts · 14,522 homes
- ZIP Code 71933 · Pearcy, Arkansas5 districts · 647 homes
- ZIP Code 72013 · Bee Branch, Arkansas5 districts · 958 homes
- ZIP Code 72015 · Benton, Arkansas5 districts · 11,710 homes
- ZIP Code 72019 · Benton, Arkansas5 districts · 11,571 homes
- ZIP Code 72020 · Bradford, Arkansas5 districts · 1,773 homes
- ZIP Code 72031 · Clinton, Arkansas5 districts · 3,928 homes
- ZIP Code 72046 · England, Arkansas5 districts · 1,939 homes
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: 379 of the 614 ZIP Code areas in Arkansas with a district named for them are served by more than one school district, and the line between two of 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.