School districts in Ohio
65% of the 1,228 populated ZIP Code areas in Ohio are served by more than one school district — 802 of them, which puts the state 13th among the fifty-two. It is organized into 611 unified districts, the largest being Columbus City at 283,038 homes. Its most divided ZIP Code area, 44481, is split between 10 districts for elementary grades alone. The two districts that share the most ZIP Codes here are Columbus City and South-Western City, in 6 of them. Counted by homes rather than by ZIP Code area, 82% of the state's housing sits in a ZIP Code that more than one district serves.
How many school districts are in Ohio?
611: the Census boundary file draws 611 school districts in Ohio that reach at least one ZIP Code area with homes, 611 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 Ohio lists them all: find your school district by ZIP code.
How often a ZIP Code here crosses a district line
The state sits well above the national rate: 65% of its ZIP Code areas cross a district line against 53% across the country. With 611 districts over 1,228 populated ZIP Code areas, every extra district is another line to cross.
- ZIP Code areas with a district1,228
- Served by more than one district802 (65%)
- Grade school and high school differ0 (0%)
- No high school district named0
- Unified districts611
- Elementary districts0
- Secondary districts0
- Homes in no district at all69
District pages for Ohio, largest first
Columbus City is the largest of them by far: at 283,038 homes it holds at least 3 times as many as Akron City, second on this list with 87,471. It reaches 44 ZIP Code areas, and the areas it covers alone are counted on its own page rather than assumed from its size.
- Columbus City School District283,038 homes · 44 ZIP areas
- Akron City School District87,471 homes · 19 ZIP areas
- Westerville City School District40,336 homes · 8 ZIP areas
- Lakota Local School District38,033 homes · 7 ZIP areas
- Canton City School District28,958 homes · 12 ZIP areas
- Mansfield City School District16,752 homes · 7 ZIP areas
The most divided ZIP Code area in Ohio
ZIP Code area 44481 is the most divided in Ohio: 10 districts reach into its 4,804 homes, led for the early grades by Lordstown Local and Champion Local. 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 4,804 homes counted in ZIP Code 44481, 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 4,804 homes counted in ZIP Code 44481, so one cell is 137 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.
- Lordstown Local School District1,476 of 4,804 homes31%
- Champion Local School District1,254 of 4,804 homes26%
- LaBrae Local School District460 of 4,804 homes9.6%
- Newton Falls Exempted Village School District431 of 4,804 homes9.0%
- Weathersfield Local School District367 of 4,804 homes7.6%
- Lakeview Local School District346 of 4,804 homes7.2%
- Warren City School District298 of 4,804 homes6.2%
- Southington Local School District90 of 4,804 homes1.9%
- Jackson-Milton Local School District52 of 4,804 homes1.1%
- Bristol Local School District30 of 4,804 homes0.6%
For grade school, an answer of one district name would be wrong for 3,328 of the 4,804 here.
How much of Ohio a single district name misses
Across the 1,228 ZIP Code areas in Ohio with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 1,071,022 of the 5,242,513 homes they hold — 20% of the state. In 386 of those areas the largest district for the early grades holds every home counted; in the other 842 it leaves some out. That is a different count from the 802 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 45011 · Hamilton, Ohio names 6 districts. Lakota Local is the largest of them for grade school, and an answer of its name alone misses 18,514 of the 27,178 homes there; for grade school the rest is 18,514 homes with Fairfield City, Hamilton City, New Miami Local and 2 more districts.
ZIP Code 43701 · Zanesville, Ohio names 6 districts. Zanesville City is the largest of them for grade school, and an answer of its name alone misses 13,346 of the 25,499 homes there; for grade school the rest is 13,346 homes with West Muskingum Local, Maysville Local, Franklin Local and 2 more districts.
In ZIP Code 44646 · Massillon, Ohio the largest district for grade school is Massillon City, and naming it alone misses 12,777 of the 21,072 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 12,767 homes with Perry Local and Jackson Local; 10 homes in a district too small to name here.
Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district
Of the 1,228 ZIP Code areas in Ohio that the federal file names a district for, 802 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 10 districts in one postal area: Lordstown, Mansfield and Springfield. 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 44481 · Lordstown, Ohio10 districts · 4,804 homes
- ZIP Code 44903 · Mansfield, Ohio8 districts · 11,348 homes
- ZIP Code 45502 · Springfield, Ohio8 districts · 7,087 homes
- ZIP Code 45601 · Chillicothe, Ohio8 districts · 23,339 homes
- ZIP Code 43068 · Reynoldsburg, Ohio7 districts · 23,412 homes
- ZIP Code 44266 · Ravenna, Ohio7 districts · 14,956 homes
- ZIP Code 44691 · Wooster, Ohio7 districts · 18,999 homes
- ZIP Code 45133 · Hillsboro, Ohio7 districts · 10,715 homes
- ZIP Code 45840 · Findlay, Ohio7 districts · 25,388 homes
- ZIP Code 45844 · Fort Jennings, Ohio7 districts · 1,271 homes
- ZIP Code 43044 · Mechanicsburg, Ohio6 districts · 2,164 homes
- ZIP Code 43050 · Mount Vernon, Ohio6 districts · 12,759 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: 802 of the 1,228 ZIP Code areas in Ohio 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.