School districts in New Jersey
New Jersey splits the two grade bands between separate districts over a large part of the state: 18% of its homes sit under an elementary district that stops before high school, with a separate secondary district taking over from there. That is why 217 of its 597 ZIP Code areas return a different set of districts for grade school than for high school. In 07860 (Newton), the most divided of them, Newton Town leads the elementary answer and Kittatinny Regional leads the high school one. The two districts that share the most ZIP Codes here are Springfield Township and Northern Burlington Regional, in 8 of them.
How many school districts are in New Jersey?
554: the Census boundary file draws 554 school districts in New Jersey that reach at least one ZIP Code area with homes, 341 unified, 168 elementary and 45 secondary. A ZIP Code here can sit in more than one of them, which is why a school district lookup by ZIP Code for New Jersey lists them all: find your school district by ZIP code.
Two districts at one address
New Jersey keeps 45 separate secondary districts — districts that pick students up partway through and run to the end of high school, over several elementary districts at once. Where one of those sits, an address has two district names and neither is wrong.
- ZIP Code areas with a district597
- Served by more than one district320 (54%)
- Grade school and high school differ217 (36%)
- No high school district named0
- Unified districts341
- Elementary districts168
- Secondary districts45
- Homes in no district at all0
District pages for New Jersey, largest first
Ranked by the homes inside their boundaries: Black Horse Pike Regional leads at 34,814, then Plainfield City at 17,125 and Deptford Township at 13,105. Only districts with a page here are listed; 548 more in the state have none.
- Black Horse Pike Regional School District34,814 homes · 10 ZIP areas
- Plainfield City School District17,125 homes · 4 ZIP areas
- Deptford Township School District13,105 homes · 6 ZIP areas
- Ocean Township School District12,257 homes · 5 ZIP areas
- Cumberland Regional School District9,137 homes · 8 ZIP areas
- Kittatinny Regional School District6,369 homes · 7 ZIP areas
The most divided ZIP Code area in New Jersey
ZIP Code area 07860 is the most divided in New Jersey: 11 districts reach into its 11,180 homes, led for the early grades by Newton Town and Hampton Township. 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 11,180 homes counted in ZIP Code 07860, 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 11,180 homes counted in ZIP Code 07860, so one cell is 319 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.
- Newton Town School District3,687 of 11,180 homes33%
- Hampton Township School District1,968 of 11,180 homes18%
- Stillwater Township School District1,868 of 11,180 homes17%
- Andover Regional School District1,376 of 11,180 homes12%
- Fredon Township School District1,256 of 11,180 homes11%
- Frankford Township School District474 of 11,180 homes4.2%
- Green Township School District366 of 11,180 homes3.3%
- Frelinghuysen Township School District185 of 11,180 homes1.7%
For grade school, an answer of one district name would be wrong for 7,493 of the 11,180 here.
How much of New Jersey a single district name misses
Across the 597 ZIP Code areas in New Jersey with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 411,135 of the 3,761,229 homes they hold — 11% of the state. In 306 of those areas the largest district for the early grades holds every home counted; in the other 291 it leaves some out. That is a different count from the 320 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.
ZIP Code 08260 · North Wildwood, New Jersey names 6 districts. North Wildwood City is the largest of them for grade school, and an answer of its name alone misses 15,043 of the 24,027 homes there; for grade school the rest is 14,988 homes with Wildwood City, Wildwood Crest Borough, Lower Township and one more district; 55 homes in a district too small to name here.
ZIP Code 08021 · Lindenwold, New Jersey names 6 districts. Lindenwold Borough is the largest of them for grade school, and an answer of its name alone misses 12,955 of the 22,686 homes there; for grade school the rest is 12,955 homes with Gloucester Township, Pine Hill Borough, Clementon Borough and one more district.
ZIP Code 08540 · Princeton, New Jersey names 7 districts. Princeton is the largest of them for grade school, and an answer of its name alone misses 10,333 of the 19,079 homes there; for grade school the rest is 10,333 homes with West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional, Montgomery Township, South Brunswick Township and 3 more districts.
Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district
Of the 597 ZIP Code areas in New Jersey that the federal file names a district for, 320 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 11 districts in one postal area: Newton, Bloomsbury and Bridgeton. 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 07860 · Newton, New Jersey11 districts · 11,180 homes · two bands, two answers
- ZIP Code 08804 · Bloomsbury, New Jersey10 districts · 1,239 homes · two bands, two answers
- ZIP Code 08302 · Bridgeton, New Jersey9 districts · 15,733 homes · two bands, two answers
- ZIP Code 07882 · Brass Castle, New Jersey9 districts · 6,297 homes · two bands, two answers
- ZIP Code 08822 · Flemington, New Jersey9 districts · 12,404 homes · two bands, two answers
- ZIP Code 08827 · Hampton, New Jersey9 districts · 1,809 homes · two bands, two answers
- ZIP Code 08332 · Millville, New Jersey8 districts · 14,865 homes · two bands, two answers
- ZIP Code 07821 · Hopatcong, New Jersey8 districts · 3,745 homes · two bands, two answers
- ZIP Code 07840 · Hackettstown, New Jersey8 districts · 13,130 homes · two bands, two answers
- ZIP Code 08802 · Asbury, New Jersey8 districts · 1,494 homes · two bands, two answers
- ZIP Code 08867 · Franklin, New Jersey8 districts · 1,875 homes · two bands, two answers
- ZIP Code 07005 · Boonton, New Jersey7 districts · 6,120 homes · two bands, two answers
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: 320 of the 597 ZIP Code areas in New Jersey 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.