School districts in Louisiana
26% of the 535 populated ZIP Code areas in Louisiana are served by more than one school district — 141 of them, which puts the state 42nd among the fifty-two. It is organized into 69 unified districts, the largest being Jefferson Parish at 193,874 homes. Its most divided ZIP Code area, 70657, is split between 4 districts for elementary grades alone. The two districts that share the most ZIP Codes here are Lafourche Parish and Terrebonne Parish, in 5 of them. Counted by homes rather than by ZIP Code area, 28% of the state's housing sits in a ZIP Code that more than one district serves.
How many school districts are in Louisiana?
69: the Census boundary file draws 69 school districts in Louisiana that reach at least one ZIP Code area with homes, 69 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 Louisiana 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 Parish alone covers 193,874 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: 141 of the 535 do.
- ZIP Code areas with a district535
- Served by more than one district141 (26%)
- Grade school and high school differ0 (0%)
- No high school district named0
- Unified districts69
- Elementary districts0
- Secondary districts0
- Homes in no district at all0
District pages for Louisiana, largest first
Only 1 district in Louisiana has a page here. Its size is the homes inside its boundary, counted from the census blocks the Census Bureau assigns to it.
The most divided ZIP Code area in Louisiana
ZIP Code area 70657 holds 2,324 homes and 4 districts take a real share of them for the early grades, but Beauregard Parish holds 77% on its own at that level. This is the shape that makes a single-name lookup look right: it names Beauregard Parish and describes most of the homes here, and silently not the rest.
Each percentage here is a share of the 2,324 homes counted in ZIP Code 70657, 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 2,324 homes counted in ZIP Code 70657, so one cell is 66 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.
- Beauregard Parish School District1,793 of 2,324 homes77%
- Allen Parish School District317 of 2,324 homes14%
- Jefferson Davis Parish School District150 of 2,324 homes6.5%
- Calcasieu Parish School District64 of 2,324 homes2.8%
For grade school, an answer of one district name would be wrong for 531 of the 2,324 here.
Where a single district name still works in Louisiana
Across the 535 ZIP Code areas in Louisiana with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 66,317 of the 2,072,850 homes they hold. That is 3.2% of the state, and in 383 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 71203 · Monroe, Louisiana the largest district for grade school is Ouachita Parish, and naming it alone misses 5,345 of the 16,749 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 5,345 homes with Monroe City.
In ZIP Code 71202 · Monroe, Louisiana the largest district for grade school is Monroe City, and naming it alone misses 4,461 of the 10,638 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 4,461 homes with Ouachita Parish.
ZIP Code 70714 · Central, Louisiana names 4 districts. Baker City is the largest of them for grade school, and an answer of its name alone misses 2,596 of the 7,748 homes there; for grade school the rest is 2,596 homes with East Baton Rouge Parish, Central Community and Zachary Community.
Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district
Of the 535 ZIP Code areas in Louisiana that the federal file names a district for, 141 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 4 districts in one postal area: Beauregard Parish, Central and Zachary. 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 70657 · Beauregard Parish, Louisiana4 districts · 2,324 homes
- ZIP Code 70714 · Central, Louisiana4 districts · 7,748 homes
- ZIP Code 70791 · Zachary, Louisiana4 districts · 11,453 homes
- ZIP Code 71237 · Epps, Louisiana4 districts · 485 homes
- ZIP Code 71418 · Banks Springs, Louisiana4 districts · 2,988 homes
- ZIP Code 71465 · Olla, Louisiana4 districts · 1,346 homes
- ZIP Code 70301 · Chackbay, Louisiana3 districts · 19,833 homes
- ZIP Code 70380 · Morgan City, Louisiana3 districts · 9,795 homes
- ZIP Code 70427 · Bogalusa, Louisiana3 districts · 9,133 homes
- ZIP Code 70443 · Independence, Louisiana3 districts · 4,297 homes
- ZIP Code 70444 · Kentwood, Louisiana3 districts · 4,633 homes
- ZIP Code 70518 · Broussard, Louisiana3 districts · 6,958 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: 141 of the 535 ZIP Code areas in Louisiana 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.