School districts in Georgia
52% of the 744 populated ZIP Code areas in Georgia are served by more than one school district — 390 of them, which puts the state 24th among the fifty-two. It is organized into 181 unified districts, 1 elementary district and 2 secondary districts, the largest being Gwinnett County at 324,404 homes. Its most divided ZIP Code area, 30230, is split between 4 districts for elementary grades alone. In 1 of them the answer for grade school is not the answer for high school. The two districts that share the most ZIP Codes here are DeKalb County and Atlanta City, in 9 of them. Counted by homes rather than by ZIP Code area, 55% of the state's housing sits in a ZIP Code that more than one district serves.
How many school districts are in Georgia?
184: the Census boundary file draws 184 school districts in Georgia that reach at least one ZIP Code area with homes, 181 unified, 1 elementary and 2 secondary. A ZIP Code here can sit in more than one of them, which is why a school district lookup by ZIP Code for Georgia 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; Gwinnett County is the largest district in it, at 324,404 homes.
- ZIP Code areas with a district744
- Served by more than one district390 (52%)
- Grade school and high school differ1 (0.1%)
- No high school district named0
- Unified districts181
- Elementary districts1
- Secondary districts2
- Homes in no district at all0
District pages for Georgia, largest first
The top of this list is flat: Gwinnett County, DeKalb County and Cobb County hold 324,404, 294,463 and 279,738 homes, so the third is within 14% of the first. Where districts are this evenly matched, size alone says little about which one a ZIP Code area belongs to.
- Gwinnett County School District324,404 homes · 29 ZIP areas
- DeKalb County School District294,463 homes · 37 ZIP areas
- Cobb County School District279,738 homes · 24 ZIP areas
- Atlanta City School District259,507 homes · 33 ZIP areas
- Fulton County School District253,848 homes · 35 ZIP areas
- Clayton County School District113,994 homes · 16 ZIP areas
- Barrow County School District29,121 homes · 8 ZIP areas
- Jackson County School District19,932 homes · 16 ZIP areas
- Gordon County School District16,622 homes · 8 ZIP areas
The most divided ZIP Code area in Georgia
ZIP Code area 30230 holds 3,889 homes and 4 districts take a real share of them for the early grades, but Troup County holds 78% on its own at that level. This is the shape that makes a single-name lookup look right: it names Troup County and describes most of the homes here, and silently not the rest.
Each percentage here is a share of the 3,889 homes counted in ZIP Code 30230, 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 3,889 homes counted in ZIP Code 30230, so one cell is 111 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.
- Troup County School District3,048 of 3,889 homes78%
- Heard County School District409 of 3,889 homes11%
- Meriwether County School District354 of 3,889 homes9.1%
- Coweta County School District78 of 3,889 homes2.0%
For grade school, an answer of one district name would be wrong for 841 of the 3,889 here.
How much of Georgia a single district name misses
Across the 744 ZIP Code areas in Georgia with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 451,139 of the 4,410,965 homes they hold — 10% of the state. In 309 of those areas the largest district for the early grades holds every home counted; in the other 435 it leaves some out. That is a different count from the 390 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.
In ZIP Code 30052 · Loganville, Georgia the largest district for grade school is Walton County, and naming it alone misses 11,454 of the 24,812 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 11,401 homes with Gwinnett County and Rockdale County; 53 homes in a district too small to name here.
In ZIP Code 30349 · South Fulton, Georgia the largest district for grade school is Fulton County, and naming it alone misses 10,563 of the 33,698 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 10,541 homes with Clayton County and 22 homes in a district too small to name here.
In ZIP Code 30331 · South Fulton, Georgia the largest district for grade school is Atlanta City, and naming it alone misses 9,931 of the 26,426 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 9,931 homes with Fulton County.
Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district
Of the 744 ZIP Code areas in Georgia that the federal file names a district for, 390 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 4 districts in one postal area: Hogansville, Jackson and Vidalia. 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 30230 · Hogansville, Georgia4 districts · 3,889 homes
- ZIP Code 30233 · Jackson, Georgia4 districts · 9,664 homes
- ZIP Code 30474 · Vidalia, Georgia4 districts · 7,444 homes
- ZIP Code 30517 · Braselton, Georgia4 districts · 5,960 homes
- ZIP Code 30530 · Commerce, Georgia4 districts · 2,662 homes
- ZIP Code 30548 · Hoschton, Georgia4 districts · 8,501 homes
- ZIP Code 30577 · Toccoa, Georgia4 districts · 10,115 homes
- ZIP Code 30662 · Royston, Georgia4 districts · 3,899 homes
- ZIP Code 30820 · Mitchell, Georgia4 districts · 603 homes
- ZIP Code 31002 · Adrian, Georgia4 districts · 1,293 homes
- ZIP Code 31016 · Salem, Georgia4 districts · 737 homes
- ZIP Code 31030 · Fort Valley, Georgia4 districts · 7,494 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: 390 of the 744 ZIP Code areas in Georgia 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.