School districts in Indiana
64% of the 806 populated ZIP Code areas in Indiana are served by more than one school district — 513 of them, which puts the state 14th among the fifty-two. It is organized into 290 unified districts, the largest being Indianapolis at 153,364 homes. Its most divided ZIP Code area, 46385, is split between 6 districts for elementary grades alone. The two districts that share the most ZIP Codes here are East Allen County Schools and Fort Wayne Community Schools, in 7 of them. Counted by homes rather than by ZIP Code area, 76% of the state's housing sits in a ZIP Code that more than one district serves.
How many school districts are in Indiana?
290: the Census boundary file draws 290 school districts in Indiana that reach at least one ZIP Code area with homes, 290 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 Indiana 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; Indianapolis is the largest district in it, at 153,364 homes.
- ZIP Code areas with a district806
- Served by more than one district513 (64%)
- Grade school and high school differ0 (0%)
- No high school district named0
- Unified districts290
- Elementary districts0
- Secondary districts0
- Homes in no district at all20
District pages for Indiana, largest first
Ranked by the homes inside their boundaries: Fort Wayne Community Schools leads at 100,911, then Washington Township Metropolitan at 46,042 and Lawrence Township Metropolitan at 43,299. Only districts with a page here are listed; 283 more in the state have none.
- Fort Wayne Community Schools100,911 homes · 18 ZIP areas
- Washington Township Metropolitan School District46,042 homes · 9 ZIP areas
- Lawrence Township Metropolitan School District43,299 homes · 7 ZIP areas
- Franklin Township Community School Corporation23,767 homes · 4 ZIP areas
- Center Grove Community School Corporation18,975 homes · 6 ZIP areas
- Clark-Pleasant Community School Corporation15,402 homes · 5 ZIP areas
- Decatur Township Metropolitan School District13,883 homes · 6 ZIP areas
The most divided ZIP Code area in Indiana
ZIP Code area 46385 is the most divided in Indiana: 6 districts reach into its 16,314 homes, led for the early grades by Valparaiso Community Schools and Union Township School Corporation. No single name describes this postal code, and no lookup that gives one is telling the whole truth about it.
Each percentage here is a share of the 16,314 homes counted in ZIP Code 46385, 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 16,314 homes counted in ZIP Code 46385, so one cell is 466 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.
- Valparaiso Community Schools7,271 of 16,314 homes45%
- Union Township School Corporation3,136 of 16,314 homes19%
- Portage Township Schools3,060 of 16,314 homes19%
- Duneland School Corporation1,557 of 16,314 homes9.5%
- Porter Township School Corporation1,207 of 16,314 homes7.4%
- East Porter County School Corporation83 of 16,314 homes0.5%
For grade school, an answer of one district name would be wrong for 9,043 of the 16,314 here.
How much of Indiana a single district name misses
Across the 806 ZIP Code areas in Indiana with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 451,075 of the 2,923,175 homes they hold — 15% of the state. In 267 of those areas the largest district for the early grades holds every home counted; in the other 539 it leaves some out. That is a different count from the 513 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 46143 · Greenwood, Indiana the largest district for grade school is Clark-Pleasant Community School Corporation, and naming it alone misses 14,322 of the 24,127 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 14,322 homes with Center Grove Community School Corporation and Greenwood Community School Corporation.
In ZIP Code 47906 · West Lafayette, Indiana the largest district for grade school is Tippecanoe School Corporation, and naming it alone misses 12,462 of the 28,144 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 12,440 homes with West Lafayette Community School Corporation and Benton Community School Corporation; 22 homes in districts too small to name here.
In ZIP Code 46224 · Indianapolis city, Indiana the largest district for grade school is Speedway School Town, and naming it alone misses 10,240 of the 16,971 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 10,240 homes with Indianapolis and Wayne Township Metropolitan.
Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district
Of the 806 ZIP Code areas in Indiana that the federal file names a district for, 513 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 6 districts in one postal area: Valparaiso, New Castle and Frankfort. 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 46385 · Valparaiso, Indiana6 districts · 16,314 homes
- ZIP Code 47362 · New Castle, Indiana6 districts · 12,713 homes
- ZIP Code 46041 · Frankfort, Indiana5 districts · 9,666 homes
- ZIP Code 46050 · Kirklin, Indiana5 districts · 724 homes
- ZIP Code 46122 · Danville, Indiana5 districts · 6,402 homes
- ZIP Code 46131 · Franklin, Indiana5 districts · 12,932 homes
- ZIP Code 46151 · Martinsville, Indiana5 districts · 13,449 homes
- ZIP Code 46158 · Mooresville, Indiana5 districts · 9,817 homes
- ZIP Code 46161 · Morristown, Indiana5 districts · 1,038 homes
- ZIP Code 46307 · Crown Point, Indiana5 districts · 26,719 homes
- ZIP Code 46341 · Hebron, Indiana5 districts · 4,224 homes
- ZIP Code 46342 · Hobart, Indiana5 districts · 13,654 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: 513 of the 806 ZIP Code areas in Indiana 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.