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School districts in West Virginia

23% of the 738 populated ZIP Code areas in West Virginia are served by more than one school district — 171 of them, which puts the state 44th among the fifty-two. It is organized into 55 unified districts, the largest being Kanawha County at 90,294 homes. Its most divided ZIP Code area, 26143, is split between 4 districts for elementary grades alone. The two districts that share the most ZIP Codes here are Braxton County and Gilmer County, in 6 of them. Counted by homes rather than by ZIP Code area, 31% of the state's housing sits in a ZIP Code that more than one district serves.

How many school districts are in West Virginia?

55: the Census boundary file draws 55 school districts in West Virginia that reach at least one ZIP Code area with homes, 55 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 West Virginia lists them all: find your school district by ZIP code.

How often a ZIP Code here crosses a district line

The state sits well below the national rate of 53%. Kanawha County alone covers 90,294 homes, and districts that size swallow whole postal areas rather than splitting them. Where a ZIP Code area here does cross a line, it is worth checking precisely because it is unusual: 171 of the 738 do.

  • ZIP Code areas with a district738
  • Served by more than one district171 (23%)
  • Grade school and high school differ0 (0%)
  • No high school district named0
  • Unified districts55
  • Elementary districts0
  • Secondary districts0
  • Homes in no district at all0

District pages for West Virginia, largest first

Only 1 district in West Virginia has a page here. Its size is the homes inside its boundary, counted from the census blocks the Census Bureau assigns to it.

The most divided ZIP Code area in West Virginia

ZIP Code area 26143 holds 2,024 homes and 4 districts take a real share of them for the early grades, but Wirt County holds 90% on its own at that level. This is the shape that makes a single-name lookup look right: it names Wirt County and describes most of the homes here, and silently not the rest.

Grade schoolWirt County School District90%1,829 of 2,024 homes
High schoolWirt County School District90%1,829 of 2,024 homes

Each percentage here is a share of the 2,024 homes counted in ZIP Code 26143, 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 2,024 homes counted in ZIP Code 26143, so one cell is 58 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.

  • Wirt County School District1,829 of 2,024 homes90%
  • Wood County School District143 of 2,024 homes7.1%
  • Jackson County School District36 of 2,024 homes1.8%
  • Ritchie County School District16 of 2,024 homes0.8%

For grade school, an answer of one district name would be wrong for 195 of the 2,024 here.

Where a single district name still works in West Virginia

Across the 738 ZIP Code areas in West Virginia with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 31,769 of the 855,495 homes they hold. That is 3.7% of the state, and in 561 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 25704 · Huntington, West Virginia the largest district for grade school is Wayne County, and naming it alone misses 2,493 of the 7,442 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 2,493 homes with Cabell County.

In ZIP Code 26062 · Weirton, West Virginia the largest district for grade school is Hancock County, and naming it alone misses 2,021 of the 10,395 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 2,021 homes with Brooke County.

In ZIP Code 26003 · Wheeling, West Virginia the largest district for grade school is Ohio County, and naming it alone misses 1,411 of the 20,576 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 1,411 homes with Marshall County.

Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district

Of the 738 ZIP Code areas in West Virginia that the federal file names a district for, 171 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 4 districts in one postal area: Newark, Fairmont and Alderson. 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: 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: 171 of the 738 ZIP Code areas in West Virginia 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.