School districts in Florida
Florida is unusual: only 11% of its populated ZIP Code areas are served by more than one school district, where the national figure is 53%. Districts here are large enough, or ZIP Code areas small enough, that the two mostly line up — Dade County alone covers 1,074,684 homes. That makes the 112 areas that do cross a line worth naming rather than assuming. Its most divided ZIP Code area, 32008, is split between 4 districts for elementary grades alone. The two districts that share the most ZIP Codes here are Hillsborough County and Pasco County, in 6 of them. Counted by homes rather than by ZIP Code area, 8.7% of the state's housing sits in a ZIP Code that more than one district serves.
How many school districts are in Florida?
67: the Census boundary file draws 67 school districts in Florida that reach at least one ZIP Code area with homes, 67 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 Florida lists them all: find your school district by ZIP code.
ZIP Codes and district lines mostly agree here
The state sits well below the national rate of 53%. Dade County alone covers 1,074,684 homes, and districts that size swallow whole postal areas rather than splitting them. Where a ZIP Code area here does cross a line, it is worth checking precisely because it is unusual: 112 of the 1,006 do.
- ZIP Code areas with a district1,006
- Served by more than one district112 (11%)
- Grade school and high school differ0 (0%)
- No high school district named0
- Unified districts67
- Elementary districts0
- Secondary districts0
- Homes in no district at all0
District pages for Florida, largest first
The top of this list is flat: Palm Beach County, Hillsborough County and Orange County hold 705,988, 602,436 and 561,851 homes, so the third is within 21% of the first. Where districts are this evenly matched, size alone says little about which one a ZIP Code area belongs to.
- Palm Beach County School District705,988 homes · 53 ZIP areas
- Hillsborough County School District602,436 homes · 60 ZIP areas
- Orange County School District561,851 homes · 49 ZIP areas
- Duval County School District435,033 homes · 38 ZIP areas
- Lee County School District416,332 homes · 38 ZIP areas
- Polk County School District316,479 homes · 45 ZIP areas
- Brevard County School District288,794 homes · 31 ZIP areas
- Volusia County School District272,325 homes · 30 ZIP areas
- Pasco County School District256,982 homes · 33 ZIP areas
- Sarasota County School District253,231 homes · 28 ZIP areas
- Putnam County School District36,014 homes · 17 ZIP areas
- Suwannee County School District18,859 homes · 9 ZIP areas
The most divided ZIP Code area in Florida
ZIP Code area 32008 holds 2,973 homes, and 4 districts each take a meaningful share of them for elementary grades — Suwannee County first at 44%, then Lafayette County. A lookup that names the first is describing that share of the homes and silently not the 1,652 homes that remain.
Each percentage here is a share of the 2,973 homes counted in ZIP Code 32008, 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 2,973 homes counted in ZIP Code 32008, so one cell is 85 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.
- Suwannee County School District1,321 of 2,973 homes44%
- Lafayette County School District800 of 2,973 homes27%
- Gilchrist County School District685 of 2,973 homes23%
- Dixie County School District167 of 2,973 homes5.6%
For grade school, an answer of one district name would be wrong for 1,652 of the 2,973 here.
Where a single district name still works in Florida
Across the 1,006 ZIP Code areas in Florida with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 123,326 of the 9,865,326 homes they hold. That is 1.3% of the state, and in 871 of the areas the largest district for the early grades holds every home counted: this is a state where the familiar answer is usually the right one, and the areas below are where it is not.
In ZIP Code 32792 · Goldenrod, Florida the largest district for grade school is Orange County, and naming it alone misses 9,541 of the 24,200 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 9,541 homes with Seminole County.
In ZIP Code 34957 · Jensen Beach, Florida the largest district for grade school is Martin County, and naming it alone misses 6,752 of the 16,867 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 6,752 homes with St. Lucie County.
In ZIP Code 32159 · Lady Lake, Florida the largest district for grade school is Lake County, and naming it alone misses 5,904 of the 19,620 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 5,904 homes with Sumter County.
Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district
Of the 1,006 ZIP Code areas in Florida that the federal file names a district for, 112 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 4 districts in one postal area: Branford, Jacksonville and Putnam County. 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 32008 · Branford, Florida4 districts · 2,973 homes
- ZIP Code 32234 · Jacksonville, Florida4 districts · 3,035 homes
- ZIP Code 32666 · Putnam County, Florida4 districts · 3,167 homes
- ZIP Code 34974 · Taylor Creek, Florida4 districts · 14,111 homes
- ZIP Code 32058 · Lawtey, Florida3 districts · 1,489 homes
- ZIP Code 32096 · White Springs, Florida3 districts · 1,421 homes
- ZIP Code 32331 · Greenville, Florida3 districts · 2,106 homes
- ZIP Code 32336 · Lamont, Florida3 districts · 816 homes
- ZIP Code 32438 · Bay County, Florida3 districts · 1,876 homes
- ZIP Code 32462 · Vernon, Florida3 districts · 1,831 homes
- ZIP Code 32466 · Bay County, Florida3 districts · 2,580 homes
- ZIP Code 32643 · High Springs, Florida3 districts · 5,336 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: 112 of the 1,006 ZIP Code areas in Florida 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.