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 27 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.
How many school districts are in Minnesota?
330: the Census boundary file draws 330 school districts in Minnesota that reach at least one ZIP Code area with homes, 321 unified, 8 elementary and 1 secondary. A ZIP Code here can sit in more than one of them, which is why a school district lookup by ZIP Code for Minnesota lists them all: find your school district by ZIP code.
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 differ27 (3.1%)
- No high school district named20
- Unified districts321
- Elementary districts8
- Secondary districts1
- Homes in no district at all298
- Areas with no district at all1
District pages for Minnesota, largest first
Ranked by the homes inside their boundaries: Anoka-Hennepin Public leads at 91,496, then Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan at 62,410 and Osseo Public at 58,066. Only districts with a page here are listed; 325 more in the state have none.
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.
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 largest district for the early grades holds every home counted; in the other 709 it leaves some out. That is a different count from the 673 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 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. For grade school the rest is 6,929 homes 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; for grade school the rest is 6,706 homes with Spring Lake Park, Columbia Heights Public, Anoka-Hennepin Public and one more district.
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. For grade school the rest is 6,543 homes with Roseville Public and 56 homes in a district too small to name here.
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.
- ZIP Code 55340 · Corcoran, Minnesota6 districts · 3,132 homes
- ZIP Code 55943 · Houston, Minnesota6 districts · 1,397 homes
- ZIP Code 56464 · Menahga, Minnesota6 districts · 2,552 homes
- ZIP Code 56575 · Pine Point, Minnesota6 districts · 499 homes · two bands, two answers
- ZIP Code 55027 · Goodhue, Minnesota5 districts · 1,140 homes
- ZIP Code 55038 · Hugo, Minnesota5 districts · 8,852 homes
- ZIP Code 55372 · Prior Lake, Minnesota5 districts · 13,075 homes
- ZIP Code 55382 · Fairhaven, Minnesota5 districts · 2,213 homes
- ZIP Code 55391 · Orono, Minnesota5 districts · 7,259 homes
- ZIP Code 55430 · Brooklyn Center, Minnesota5 districts · 8,544 homes
- ZIP Code 55432 · Fridley, Minnesota5 districts · 13,624 homes
- ZIP Code 55720 · Cloquet, Minnesota5 districts · 7,375 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: 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.
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.