School districts in Nebraska
Nebraska ranks 2nd among the states for how often the mail and the schools disagree: 81% of its 583 populated ZIP Code areas are served by more than one school district, against 53% across the country. The worst of them is 68601, where 6 districts each hold a real share of the homes and Columbus leads with the largest. The two districts that share the most ZIP Codes here are Waverly School District 145 and Lincoln, in 7 of them. Counted by homes rather than by ZIP Code area, 71% of the state's housing sits in a ZIP Code that more than one district serves.
How many school districts are in Nebraska?
244: the Census boundary file draws 244 school districts in Nebraska that reach at least one ZIP Code area with homes, 244 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 Nebraska lists them all: find your school district by ZIP code.
Eight ZIP Codes in ten here cross a district line
The state sits well above the national rate: 81% of its ZIP Code areas cross a district line against 53% across the country. With 244 districts over 583 populated ZIP Code areas, every extra district is another line to cross.
- ZIP Code areas with a district583
- Served by more than one district473 (81%)
- Grade school and high school differ0 (0%)
- No high school district named0
- Unified districts244
- Elementary districts0
- Secondary districts0
- Homes in no district at all0
District pages for Nebraska, largest first
Ranked by the homes inside their boundaries: Millard leads at 45,923, then Elkhorn at 20,143 and Westside Community Schools at 13,953. Only districts with a page here are listed; 240 more in the state have none.
The most divided ZIP Code area in Nebraska
ZIP Code area 68601 holds 12,624 homes and 6 districts take a real share of them for the early grades, but Columbus holds 81% on its own at that level. This is the shape that makes a single-name lookup look right: it names Columbus and describes most of the homes here, and silently not the rest.
Each percentage here is a share of the 12,624 homes counted in ZIP Code 68601, 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 12,624 homes counted in ZIP Code 68601, so one cell is 361 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.
- Columbus Public Schools10,183 of 12,624 homes81%
- Lakeview Community Schools1,726 of 12,624 homes14%
- David City Public Schools182 of 12,624 homes1.4%
- Shelby-Rising City Public Schools176 of 12,624 homes1.4%
- Osceola Public Schools175 of 12,624 homes1.4%
- Schuyler Community Schools141 of 12,624 homes1.1%
3 further districts reach into this area and hold 41 homes between them, under half a percent of the homes named at this level each.
For grade school, an answer of one district name would be wrong for 2,441 of the 12,624 here.
Where a single district name still works in Nebraska
Across the 583 ZIP Code areas in Nebraska with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 65,485 of the 844,375 homes they hold. That is 7.8% of the state, and in 75 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 68144 · Omaha, Nebraska the largest district for grade school is Millard, and naming it alone misses 5,443 of the 10,688 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 5,443 homes with Omaha and Westside Community Schools.
In ZIP Code 68114 · Omaha, Nebraska the largest district for grade school is Westside Community Schools, and naming it alone misses 3,903 of the 8,907 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 3,903 homes with Omaha.
In ZIP Code 68130 · Omaha, Nebraska the largest district for grade school is Elkhorn, and naming it alone misses 3,808 of the 8,296 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 3,808 homes with Millard.
Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district
Of the 583 ZIP Code areas in Nebraska that the federal file names a district for, 473 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 6 districts in one postal area: Columbus, Lindsay and Arcadia. 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 68601 · Columbus, Nebraska6 districts · 12,624 homes
- ZIP Code 68644 · Lindsay, Nebraska6 districts · 303 homes
- ZIP Code 68815 · Arcadia, Nebraska6 districts · 292 homes
- ZIP Code 68863 · Overton, Nebraska6 districts · 471 homes
- ZIP Code 68930 · Blue Hill, Nebraska6 districts · 577 homes
- ZIP Code 69029 · Farnam, Nebraska6 districts · 169 homes
- ZIP Code 68003 · Wann, Nebraska5 districts · 2,588 homes
- ZIP Code 68004 · Bancroft, Nebraska5 districts · 375 homes
- ZIP Code 68007 · Bennington, Nebraska5 districts · 5,396 homes
- ZIP Code 68018 · Colon, Nebraska5 districts · 196 homes
- ZIP Code 68037 · Louisville, Nebraska5 districts · 1,039 homes
- ZIP Code 68319 · Bradshaw, Nebraska5 districts · 249 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: 473 of the 583 ZIP Code areas in Nebraska 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.