School districts in Oklahoma
In Oklahoma the federal boundary file names an elementary district and no secondary district at all for part of 124 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. Oklahoma City is the largest district in the state at 136,908 homes; the smallest arrangements are the ones a single-name lookup cannot describe. Its most divided ZIP Code area, 74501, is split between 12 districts for elementary grades alone. In 128 of them the answer for grade school is not the answer for high school.
How many school districts are in Oklahoma?
506: the Census boundary file draws 506 school districts in Oklahoma that reach at least one ZIP Code area with homes, 415 unified, 91 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 Oklahoma lists them all: find your school district by ZIP code.
Towns that run grade school and buy the rest
The state sits well above the national rate: 73% of its ZIP Code areas cross a district line against 53% across the country. With 506 districts over 663 populated ZIP Code areas, every extra district is another line to cross.
- ZIP Code areas with a district663
- Served by more than one district485 (73%)
- Grade school and high school differ128 (19%)
- No high school district named124
- Unified districts415
- Elementary districts91
- Secondary districts0
- Homes in no district at all0
District pages for Oklahoma, largest first
Ranked by the homes inside their boundaries: Oklahoma City leads at 136,908, then Tulsa at 136,191 and Edmond at 67,892. Only districts with a page here are listed; 502 more in the state have none.
The most divided ZIP Code area in Oklahoma
ZIP Code area 74501 holds 12,841 homes and 12 districts take a real share of them for the early grades, but McAlester holds 61% on its own at that level. This is the shape that makes a single-name lookup look right: it names McAlester and describes most of the homes here, and silently not the rest.
2,169 of the 12,841 homes here have no high school district named in the federal file.
Each percentage here is a share of the 12,841 homes counted in ZIP Code 74501, 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 12,841 homes counted in ZIP Code 74501, so one cell is 367 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.
- McAlester Public Schools7,777 of 12,841 homes61%
- Crowder Public Schools1,031 of 12,841 homes8.0%
- Frink-Chambers Public School758 of 12,841 homes5.9%
- Haileyville Public Schools638 of 12,841 homes5.0%
- Indianola Public Schools522 of 12,841 homes4.1%
- Haywood Public School502 of 12,841 homes3.9%
- Krebs Public School471 of 12,841 homes3.7%
- Tannehill Public School438 of 12,841 homes3.4%
- Savanna Public Schools317 of 12,841 homes2.5%
- Canadian Public Schools143 of 12,841 homes1.1%
- Stuart Public Schools118 of 12,841 homes0.9%
- Hartshorne Public Schools96 of 12,841 homes0.7%
2 further districts reach into this area and hold 30 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 5,064 of the 12,841 here.
Where the high school answer in Oklahoma is missing from the file
Across the 663 ZIP Code areas in Oklahoma with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 299,590 of the 1,746,757 homes they hold. The arithmetic understates it here: in 124 of those areas some homes have no high school district named at all, so the name that is right for the early grades is not wrong later — there is nothing there to be right about.
ZIP Code 73099 · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma names 4 districts. Yukon is the largest of them for grade school, and an answer of its name alone misses 14,458 of the 33,316 homes there; for grade school the rest is 14,257 homes with Mustang, Piedmont and Banner Public School; 201 homes in districts too small to name here.
In ZIP Code 74136 · Tulsa, Oklahoma the largest district for grade school is Tulsa, and naming it alone misses 7,671 of the 16,241 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 7,671 homes with Jenks and Union.
ZIP Code 73401 · Ardmore, Oklahoma names 5 districts. Ardmore is the largest of them for grade school, and an answer of its name alone misses 7,526 of the 16,442 homes there; for grade school the rest is 7,300 homes with Plainview, Dickson, Lone Grove and one more district; 226 homes in districts too small to name here.
Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district
Of the 663 ZIP Code areas in Oklahoma that the federal file names a district for, 485 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 12 districts in one postal area: McAlester, Park Hill and Rocky Mountain. 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 74501 · McAlester, Oklahoma12 districts · 12,841 homes · 2,169 with no high school district
- ZIP Code 74464 · Park Hill, Oklahoma10 districts · 13,593 homes · 4,024 with no high school district
- ZIP Code 74960 · Rocky Mountain, Oklahoma10 districts · 4,810 homes · 1,878 with no high school district
- ZIP Code 74437 · Henryetta, Oklahoma9 districts · 4,311 homes · 108 with no high school district
- ZIP Code 74066 · Sapulpa, Oklahoma8 districts · 13,370 homes · 3,390 with no high school district
- ZIP Code 74525 · Atoka, Oklahoma8 districts · 4,145 homes · 1,181 with no high school district
- ZIP Code 74801 · Shawnee, Oklahoma8 districts · 9,766 homes · 1,221 with no high school district
- ZIP Code 73075 · Pauls Valley, Oklahoma7 districts · 4,351 homes · 619 with no high school district
- ZIP Code 73533 · Duncan, Oklahoma7 districts · 13,169 homes
- ZIP Code 74010 · Slick, Oklahoma7 districts · 4,697 homes · 178 with no high school district
- ZIP Code 74019 · Justice, Oklahoma7 districts · 7,756 homes · 1,130 with no high school district
- ZIP Code 74038 · Jennings, Oklahoma7 districts · 967 homes · 427 with no high school district
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: 485 of the 663 ZIP Code areas in Oklahoma 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.