School districts in District of Columbia

District of Columbia is run as a single school system: District of Columbia covers the whole territory, all 34 ZIP Code areas with homes in them. There is nothing to disagree about here, and no lookup is needed — the answer is the same at every address.

How many school districts are in District of Columbia?

1: the Census boundary file draws one school district in District of Columbia that reaches a ZIP Code area with homes, District of Columbia Public Schools, a unified district, and it reaches 57 ZIP Code areas. A school district lookup by ZIP Code here gives that one name, and what it still has to say is how many of the homes counted the file puts inside it: find your school district by ZIP code.

One district, one state

The state sits well below the national rate of 53%. District of Columbia alone covers 350,364 homes, and districts that size swallow whole postal areas rather than splitting them. Not one of its 34 ZIP Code areas crosses a district line.

ZIP Code areas with a district34
Served by more than one district0 (0%)
Grade school and high school differ0 (0%)
No high school district named0
Unified districts1
Elementary districts0
Secondary districts0
Homes in no district at all0

Where a single district name still works in District of Columbia

Across the 34 ZIP Code areas in District of Columbia with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 0 of the 350,364 homes they hold: in 34 of the areas the largest district for the early grades holds every home counted. The areas below are the first by ZIP Code.

ZIP Code 20001 · Washington, District of Columbia is served end to end by District of Columbia: one district for all 28,128 homes counted there, as in every one of the 34 areas in District of Columbia.

ZIP Code 20002 · Washington, District of Columbia is served end to end by District of Columbia: one district for all 37,401 homes counted there, as in every one of the 34 areas in District of Columbia.

ZIP Code 20003 · Washington, District of Columbia is served end to end by District of Columbia: one district for all 21,574 homes counted there, as in every one of the 34 areas in District of Columbia.

The largest ZIP Code areas here

Not one of the 34 ZIP Code areas in District of Columbia that the federal file names a district for is served by more than one of them: one district covers each of those postal areas by itself. The 12 areas below are the largest by homes, and each one opens the full answer for that ZIP Code.

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: 0 of the 34 ZIP Code areas in District of Columbia 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.