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ZIP Code 49022 · Fair Plain, Michigan

Berrien County · 13,902 counted · 5 districts

Grade schoolBenton Harbor Area Schools91%12,668 of 13,902 homes
High schoolBenton Harbor Area Schools91%12,668 of 13,902 homes

198 of the 13,902 homes here have no high school district named in the federal file.

Each percentage here is a share of the 13,902 homes counted in ZIP Code 49022, 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.

5 districts are named for the early grades in ZIP Code 49022, Fair Plain, Michigan and fewer for high school: at least one of them runs the early grades only, and the file stops naming it above them. Nothing new arrives, so nobody moves to a district that was not already here; the answer narrows instead. 13,902 homes were counted, and Benton Harbor Area Schools holds the most of them. The largest share is high enough that one name is right for most of the homes counted and wrong for the other 1,234: 1,215 homes with Coloma Community Schools, Watervliet, Dowagiac Union Schools and one more district; 19 homes in a district too small to name here.

The early grades are divided many ways

5 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 49022 at this level. Benton Harbor Area Schools is the largest with 12,668 homes; the smallest of them holds 198 homes. Hagar Township School District 6 is named here for grade school and not for high school.

Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 13,902 homes counted in ZIP Code 49022, so one cell is 397 homes, rounded to the nearest whole cell. Cells lit solid are the homes one district holds; the hatched cells at the end of a track are homes that no district of that kind is drawn to serve at all.

  • Benton Harbor Area Schools12,668 of 13,902 homes91%
  • Coloma Community Schools441 of 13,902 homes3.2%
  • Watervliet School District377 of 13,902 homes2.7%
  • Dowagiac Union Schools199 of 13,902 homes1.4%
  • Hagar Township School District 6198 of 13,902 homes1.4%

Below half a percent at the grade school level: St. Joseph Public Schools holds 19 homes, which is why it is counted under the list rather than inside it. A lookup that named it alongside the districts above would be listing a boundary crossing rather than an answer.

High school is divided four ways

4 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 49022 at this level. Benton Harbor Area Schools is the largest with 12,668 homes; the smallest of them holds 199 homes.

  • Benton Harbor Area Schools12,668 of 13,902 homes91%
  • Coloma Community Schools441 of 13,902 homes3.2%
  • Watervliet School District377 of 13,902 homes2.7%
  • Dowagiac Union Schools199 of 13,902 homes1.4%

Below half a percent at the high school level: St. Joseph Public Schools holds 19 homes, which is why it is counted under the list rather than inside it. A lookup that named it alongside the districts above would be listing a boundary crossing rather than an answer.

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A district runs the early grades only

Hagar Township School District 6 runs the early grades here and is not named for high school. Nobody moves to a district that was not already in the elementary answer: the list of names gets shorter, and the homes under the district that stops are picked up by one of the others or by no secondary district at all.

What one district name costs in 49022

A lookup that answers ZIP Code 49022 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 13,902 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 1,234 homes and for high school it is wrong for 1,234 homes. That is the whole difference between this page and a one-line answer: the same federal file, read to the end instead of to the first row.

The districts that reach into 49022

The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Dowagiac Union Schools touches 8 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 199 homes inside this one; Coloma Community Schools touches 3 areas. Hagar Township School District 6 is the only district in at least one ZIP Code area somewhere in the country, while Benton Harbor Area Schools is never the only one anywhere: every postal area it touches, it shares.

  • Benton Harbor Area Schools12,668 of 13,902 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
  • Coloma Community Schools441 of 13,902 here · 3 ZIP areas in all
  • Watervliet School District377 of 13,902 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
  • Dowagiac Union Schools199 of 13,902 here · 8 ZIP areas in all
  • Hagar Township School District 6198 of 13,902 here · 3 ZIP areas in all

Where Benton Harbor Area Schools goes from here

Benton Harbor Area Schools runs pre-K through grade 12, and it shares all 4 ZIP Code areas it touches with neighbors and is the only district in none of them. Inside its own boundary it holds 13,257 homes over 58 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 49022 is 12,668 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Coloma Community Schools, across 2 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 49038 it holds 28 of 4,965 homes, or 0.6% of them.

How 49022 compares in Michigan

Across Michigan the boundary file names more than one district in 746 of the 987 ZIP Code areas it names a district for, 76% of them, and 35 areas in the state have no high school district named for part of their homes. Counting the districts named at either level, 26 areas in Michigan name more than this ZIP Code does and 896 name fewer. Nationally more than one district is named in 53% of 33,555 areas.

Look up 49022 again, or look up another ZIP Code

The lookup holds every ZIP Code area in the country with homes in it, including the ones with no page of their own. Opening it at 49022 recomputes the same 13,902 homes from the same snapshot, and typing five other digits answers for somewhere else. No server is asked for the answer: the whole index travels with the lookup page itself.

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: 1,234 of the 13,902 homes counted in 49022 sit outside the district holding the most of them, and the line between the two runs along streets rather than around the postal area.

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.

What this site can hand you instead:

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.