School districts in Kentucky
39% of the 775 populated ZIP Code areas in Kentucky are served by more than one school district — 300 of them, which puts the state 33rd among the fifty-two. It is organized into 169 unified districts, 4 elementary districts and 4 secondary districts, the largest being Jefferson County School District at 356,042 homes. Its most divided ZIP Code area, 41102, is split between 5 districts for elementary grades alone. In 5 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 Meade County and Breckinridge County, in 6 of them.
How many school districts are in Kentucky?
177: the Census boundary file draws 177 school districts in Kentucky that reach at least one ZIP Code area with homes, 169 unified, 4 elementary and 4 secondary. A ZIP Code here can sit in more than one of them, which is why a school district lookup by ZIP Code for Kentucky lists them all: find your school district by ZIP code.
How often a ZIP Code here crosses a district line
The state sits well below the national rate of 53%. Jefferson County School District alone covers 356,042 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: 300 of the 775 do.
- ZIP Code areas with a district775
- Served by more than one district300 (39%)
- Grade school and high school differ5 (0.6%)
- No high school district named0
- Unified districts169
- Elementary districts4
- Secondary districts4
- Homes in no district at all0
District pages for Kentucky, largest first
Jefferson County School District is the largest of them by far: at 356,042 homes it holds at least 7 times as many as Boone County, second on this list with 48,520. It reaches 43 ZIP Code areas, and the areas it covers alone are counted on its own page rather than assumed from its size.
The most divided ZIP Code area in Kentucky
ZIP Code area 41102 holds 8,930 homes, and 5 districts each take a meaningful share of them for elementary grades — Boyd County first at 54%, then Ashland Independent. A lookup that names the first is describing that share of the homes and silently not the 4,123 homes that remain.
Each percentage here is a share of the 8,930 homes counted in ZIP Code 41102, 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 8,930 homes counted in ZIP Code 41102, so one cell is 255 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.
- Boyd County School District4,807 of 8,930 homes54%
- Ashland Independent School District2,765 of 8,930 homes31%
- Fairview Independent School District1,137 of 8,930 homes13%
- Russell Independent School District124 of 8,930 homes1.4%
- Greenup County School District95 of 8,930 homes1.1%
One further district reaches into this area and holds 2 homes in it, under half a percent of the homes named at this level.
For grade school, an answer of one district name would be wrong for 4,123 of the 8,930 here.
How much of Kentucky a single district name misses
Across the 775 ZIP Code areas in Kentucky with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 212,549 of the 1,996,370 homes they hold — 11% of the state. In 448 of those areas the largest district for the early grades holds every home counted; in the other 327 it leaves some out. That is a different count from the 300 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 42101 · Bowling Green, Kentucky the largest district for grade school is Warren County, and naming it alone misses 9,062 of the 26,460 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 8,982 homes with Bowling Green Independent and Edmonson County; 80 homes in a district too small to name here.
ZIP Code 40701 · Corbin, Kentucky names 4 districts. Corbin Independent is the largest of them for grade school, and an answer of its name alone misses 8,858 of the 13,750 homes there; for grade school the rest is 8,858 homes with Laurel County School District, Knox County and Whitley County.
In ZIP Code 42301 · Owensboro, Kentucky the largest district for grade school is Daviess County, and naming it alone misses 8,138 of the 19,610 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 8,094 homes with Owensboro Independent and 44 homes in districts too small to name here.
Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district
Of the 775 ZIP Code areas in Kentucky that the federal file names a district for, 300 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 5 districts in one postal area: Ashland, Campbellsville and Smithfield. 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 41102 · Ashland, Kentucky5 districts · 8,930 homes
- ZIP Code 42718 · Campbellsville, Kentucky5 districts · 11,214 homes
- ZIP Code 40068 · Smithfield, Kentucky4 districts · 1,060 homes
- ZIP Code 40403 · Berea, Kentucky4 districts · 11,321 homes
- ZIP Code 40419 · Crab Orchard, Kentucky4 districts · 2,056 homes
- ZIP Code 40601 · Frankfort, Kentucky4 districts · 24,310 homes
- ZIP Code 40701 · Corbin, Kentucky4 districts · 13,750 homes
- ZIP Code 40741 · London, Kentucky4 districts · 10,102 homes · two bands, two answers
- ZIP Code 41010 · Corinth, Kentucky4 districts · 1,438 homes
- ZIP Code 41039 · Elizaville, Kentucky4 districts · 1,303 homes
- ZIP Code 41071 · Newport, Kentucky4 districts · 10,306 homes · two bands, two answers
- ZIP Code 41092 · Verona, Kentucky4 districts · 1,396 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: 300 of the 775 ZIP Code areas in Kentucky 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.