School districts in Minnesota

Minnesota ranks 4th among the states for how often the mail and the schools disagree: 77% of its 878 populated ZIP Code areas are served by more than one school district, against 53% across the country. The worst of them is 55340, where 6 districts each hold a real share of the homes and Wayzata Public leads with the largest. In 25 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 Grand Rapids Public and Deer River Public, in 7 of them. 298 homes in the state sit in no school district's territory at all: the federal file places them outside every district it names, which is what it does for military installations, tribal land and unorganized territory.

Seven ZIP Codes in ten here cross a district line

The state sits well above the national rate: 77% of its ZIP Code areas cross a district line against 53% across the country. With 330 districts over 878 populated ZIP Code areas, every extra district is another line to cross.

ZIP Code areas with a district878
Served by more than one district673 (77%)
Grade school and high school differ25 (2.8%)
No high school district named19
Unified districts322
Elementary districts7
Secondary districts1
Homes in no district at all298
Areas with no district at all1

The largest districts in Minnesota

Ranked by the homes inside their boundaries: Minneapolis Public leads at 199,144, then St. Paul Public and Anoka-Hennepin Public. Only districts with a page here are linked; 324 more exist in the state without one.

The most divided ZIP Code area in Minnesota

ZIP Code area 55340 is the most divided in Minnesota: 6 districts reach into its 3,132 homes, led for the early grades by Wayzata Public and Rockford Public. No single name describes this postal code, and no lookup that gives one is telling the whole truth about it.

Grade schoolWayzata Public School District58%1,810 of 3,132 homes

High schoolWayzata Public School District58%1,810 of 3,132 homes

Each percentage here is a share of the 3,132 homes counted in ZIP Code 55340, 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 3,132 homes counted in ZIP Code 55340, so one cell is 89 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.

Wayzata Public School District1,810 of 3,132 homes58%
Rockford Public School District755 of 3,132 homes24%
Buffalo-Hanover-Montrose Public Schools250 of 3,132 homes8.0%
Osseo Public School District134 of 3,132 homes4.3%
Delano Public School District108 of 3,132 homes3.4%
Orono Public School District75 of 3,132 homes2.4%

For grade school, an answer of one district name would be wrong for 1,322 of the 3,132 here.

How much of Minnesota a single district name misses

Across the 878 ZIP Code areas in Minnesota with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 252,890 of the 2,485,769 homes they hold — 10% of the state. In 169 of those areas the single name is the whole truth; in the other 709 it is not.

In ZIP Code 55122 · Eagan, Minnesota the largest district for grade school is Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan, and naming it alone misses 6,929 of the 13,812 homes counted there. The rest are with Burnsville-Eagan-Savage and West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan.

ZIP Code 55432 · Fridley, Minnesota names 5 districts. Fridley Public is the largest of them for grade school, and an answer of its name alone misses 6,706 of the 13,624 homes there; Spring Lake Park, Columbia Heights Public and Anoka-Hennepin Public hold the rest.

In ZIP Code 55117 · St. Paul, Minnesota the largest district for grade school is St. Paul Public, and naming it alone misses 6,599 of the 16,951 homes counted there. The rest are with Roseville Public.

Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district

Of the 878 ZIP Code areas in Minnesota that the federal file names a district for, 673 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 6 districts in one postal area: Corcoran, Houston and Menahga. 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.

What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address. A district settles that question on its own site: look for a school locator, a find my school tool, or an attendance zone map. Where there is none, ask the office itself.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: 673 of the 878 ZIP Code areas in Minnesota 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.

This site links to no district website. None of the federal files it is built from publishes one, and a guessed address is worse than none. It is the district office, not a search engine, that settles an address.

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.

What this cannot tell you

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file. Nothing on this page adjusts one to the other. Where houses have been built or cleared since the count, a share here describes the place as it was counted rather than as it stands today, and in the fastest-growing ZIP Code areas that gap is the largest single source of error on this site.

A share on this page is a share of the homes in the ZIP Code area, not a probability for any particular address. Enrollment is decided by street address, and a district may run magnet, charter or choice programs that ignore the boundary entirely. If a decision depends on the answer, the district office is the only authority; this page shows what the federal boundary files say and when they were published.

A district boundary is not a school attendance zone. This site never says which school an address is assigned to: no current national dataset of attendance zones exists, and the district draws them itself. Nor is anything here endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau; we use their published files, and that is the whole of the relationship.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not an area. What is mapped here is the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Area, the closest published approximation to it. The two are not identical, and a handful of ZIP Codes used only for post office boxes or single buildings have no tabulation area at all.

Where these numbers come from

School district boundaries come from the Census Bureau's Census Geographic Relationship File, current 2026 vintage, which assigns every census block to a unified district or to an elementary and a secondary district. Homes and residents in each block come from the 2020 Census Redistricting Data (PL 94-171), H1_001 and P1_001. The ZIP Code areas come from the same Geographic Relationship File, block to ZIP Code Tabulation Area. District names and grade ranges come from the Census Gazetteer 2025, with 2020 for districts no longer listed.

The place name printed beside a ZIP Code comes from the Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Area relationship files: place, county subdivision and county, taken 2026-09-06. It is a label rather than a measurement: the Census Bureau does not publish which post office a ZIP Code belongs to, so the place named is the one covering the most land inside the area, not the city the Postal Service prints on an envelope.

Everything else on this page — the shares, the counts of districts per ZIP, the comparison between the two grade bands, the rankings — is computed here from those files. The source publishes none of it. Snapshot taken 2026-09-03.