School districts in Mississippi
61% of the 423 populated ZIP Code areas in Mississippi are served by more than one school district — 258 of them, which puts the state 19th among the fifty-two. It is organized into 137 unified districts, the largest being Jackson Public at 73,787 homes. Its most divided ZIP Code area, 38860, is split between 7 districts for elementary grades alone. The two districts that share the most ZIP Codes here are Copiah County and Hazlehurst City, in 6 of them. Counted by homes rather than by ZIP Code area, 72% of the state's housing sits in a ZIP Code that more than one district serves.
How many school districts are in Mississippi?
137: the Census boundary file draws 137 school districts in Mississippi that reach at least one ZIP Code area with homes, 137 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 Mississippi 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; Jackson Public is the largest district in it, at 73,787 homes.
- ZIP Code areas with a district423
- Served by more than one district258 (61%)
- Grade school and high school differ0 (0%)
- No high school district named0
- Unified districts137
- Elementary districts0
- Secondary districts0
- Homes in no district at all0
District pages for Mississippi, largest first
Ranked by the homes inside their boundaries: Lamar County leads at 26,912, then Tupelo Public at 17,963 and Meridian Public at 17,154. Only districts with a page here are listed; 132 more in the state have none.
The most divided ZIP Code area in Mississippi
ZIP Code area 38860 holds 2,725 homes and 7 districts take a real share of them for the early grades, but Okolona Separate holds 82% on its own at that level. This is the shape that makes a single-name lookup look right: it names Okolona Separate and describes most of the homes here, and silently not the rest.
Each percentage here is a share of the 2,725 homes counted in ZIP Code 38860, 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 2,725 homes counted in ZIP Code 38860, so one cell is 78 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.
- Okolona Separate School District2,222 of 2,725 homes82%
- Amory School District209 of 2,725 homes7.7%
- Lee County School District143 of 2,725 homes5.2%
- Nettleton School District67 of 2,725 homes2.5%
- Chickasaw County School District34 of 2,725 homes1.2%
- Aberdeen School District25 of 2,725 homes0.9%
- Pontotoc County Schools25 of 2,725 homes0.9%
For grade school, an answer of one district name would be wrong for 503 of the 2,725 here.
How much of Mississippi a single district name misses
Across the 423 ZIP Code areas in Mississippi with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 189,191 of the 1,319,814 homes they hold — 14% of the state. In 147 of those areas the largest district for the early grades holds every home counted; in the other 276 it leaves some out. That is a different count from the 258 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 39532 · Biloxi, Mississippi the largest district for grade school is Harrison County, and naming it alone misses 9,513 of the 14,760 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 9,513 homes with Biloxi Public and Jackson County.
In ZIP Code 39401 · Hattiesburg, Mississippi the largest district for grade school is Hattiesburg Public, and naming it alone misses 6,001 of the 20,267 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 5,975 homes with Forrest County Schools and Jones County; 26 homes in a district too small to name here.
In ZIP Code 38834 · Corinth, Mississippi the largest district for grade school is Corinth, and naming it alone misses 5,940 of the 12,948 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 5,936 homes with Alcorn and 4 homes in a district too small to name here.
Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district
Of the 423 ZIP Code areas in Mississippi that the federal file names a district for, 258 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 7 districts in one postal area: Okolona, Baldwyn and Enterprise. 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 38860 · Okolona, Mississippi7 districts · 2,725 homes
- ZIP Code 38824 · Baldwyn, Mississippi6 districts · 3,629 homes
- ZIP Code 39330 · Enterprise, Mississippi6 districts · 1,341 homes
- ZIP Code 39573 · Stone County, Mississippi6 districts · 3,796 homes
- ZIP Code 38965 · Water Valley, Mississippi5 districts · 4,436 homes
- ZIP Code 39092 · Lake, Mississippi5 districts · 1,195 homes
- ZIP Code 39350 · Pearl River, Mississippi5 districts · 9,985 homes
- ZIP Code 39476 · Richton, Mississippi5 districts · 3,316 homes
- ZIP Code 39666 · Summit, Mississippi5 districts · 4,687 homes
- ZIP Code 38610 · Blue Mountain, Mississippi4 districts · 1,480 homes
- ZIP Code 38635 · Holly Springs, Mississippi4 districts · 6,237 homes
- ZIP Code 38759 · Merigold, Mississippi4 districts · 542 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: 258 of the 423 ZIP Code areas in Mississippi 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.