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School districts in North Dakota

In North Dakota the federal boundary file names an elementary district and no secondary district at all for part of 36 ZIP Code areas. That is an arrangement rather than a hole in the data: the town runs its own grade school and pays tuition for its high school students elsewhere. Fargo Public School District 1 is the largest district in the state at 46,336 homes; the smallest arrangements are the ones a single-name lookup cannot describe. Its most divided ZIP Code area, 58413, is split between 6 districts for elementary grades alone. In 35 of them the answer for grade school is not the answer for high school.

Towns that run grade school and buy the rest

The state sits well above the national rate: 75% of its ZIP Code areas cross a district line against 53% across the country. With 167 districts over 386 populated ZIP Code areas, every extra district is another line to cross.

  • ZIP Code areas with a district386
  • Served by more than one district290 (75%)
  • Grade school and high school differ35 (9.1%)
  • No high school district named36
  • Unified districts147
  • Elementary districts20
  • Secondary districts0
  • Homes in no district at all0

The largest districts in North Dakota

The top of the list is unusually flat: Fargo Public School District 1, Bismarck Public School District 1 and West Fargo Public School District 6 are within a few percent of each other at around 46,336 homes apiece. Where districts are evenly matched, no one of them owns a postal area, and the shares below tend to be split rather than lopsided.

The most divided ZIP Code area in North Dakota

ZIP Code area 58413 holds 759 homes and 6 districts take a real share of them for the early grades, but Ashley Public School District 9 holds 92% on its own at that level. This is the shape that makes a single-name lookup look right: it names Ashley Public School District 9 and describes most of the homes here, and silently not the rest.

Grade schoolAshley Public School District 992%699 of 759 homes
High schoolAshley Public School District 992%699 of 759 homes

Each percentage here is a share of the 759 homes counted in ZIP Code 58413, 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 759 homes counted in ZIP Code 58413, so one cell is 22 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.

  • Ashley Public School District 9699 of 759 homes92%
  • Wishek Public School District 1917 of 759 homes2.2%
  • Zeeland Public School District 417 of 759 homes2.2%
  • Eureka School District 44-113 of 759 homes1.7%
  • Kulm Public School District 78 of 759 homes1.1%
  • Ellendale Public School District 405 of 759 homes0.7%

For grade school, an answer of one district name would be wrong for 60 of the 759 here.

How much of North Dakota a single district name misses

Across the 386 ZIP Code areas in North Dakota with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 30,311 of the 370,158 homes they hold — 8.2% of the state. In 73 of those areas the single name is the whole truth; in the other 313 it is not.

In ZIP Code 58104 · Fargo, North Dakota the largest district for grade school is Fargo Public School District 1, and naming it alone misses 9,451 of the 21,835 homes counted there. The rest are with West Fargo Public School District 6.

In ZIP Code 58103 · Fargo, North Dakota the largest district for grade school is Fargo Public School District 1, and naming it alone misses 6,314 of the 24,551 homes counted there. The rest are with West Fargo Public School District 6.

ZIP Code 58701 · Minot, North Dakota names 5 districts. Minot Public School District 1 is the largest of them for grade school, and an answer of its name alone misses 1,905 of the 15,815 homes there; Nedrose Public School District 4, South Prairie Public School District 70 and United Public School District 7 hold the rest.

Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district

Of the 386 ZIP Code areas in North Dakota that the federal file names a district for, 290 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 6 districts in one postal area: Ashley, Englevale and Shell Valley. 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: 290 of the 386 ZIP Code areas in North Dakota 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.