ZIP Code 49855 · Marquette, Michigan
Marquette County · 15,182 counted · 3 districts
399 of the 15,182 homes here have no high school district named in the federal file.
Each percentage here is a share of the 15,182 homes counted in ZIP Code 49855, 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.
3 districts are named for the early grades in ZIP Code 49855, Marquette, 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. 15,182 homes were counted, and Marquette Area Public 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 772: 759 homes with Powell Township Schools and Gwinn Area Community Schools; 13 homes in districts too small to name here.
Three districts share the early grades
3 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 49855 at this level. Marquette Area is the largest with 14,410 homes; the smallest of them holds 360 homes. Powell Township Schools is named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 15,182 homes counted in ZIP Code 49855, so one cell is 434 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.
- Marquette Area Public Schools14,410 of 15,182 homes95%
- Powell Township Schools399 of 15,182 homes2.6%
- Gwinn Area Community Schools360 of 15,182 homes2.4%
Below half a percent at the grade school level: Negaunee Public Schools and N.I.C.E. Community Schools hold 13 homes between them, which is why they are counted under the list rather than inside it. A lookup that named them alongside the districts above would be listing a boundary crossing rather than an answer.
High school is split between two districts
2 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 49855 at this level. Marquette Area is the largest with 14,410 homes; the smallest of them holds 360 homes.
- Marquette Area Public Schools14,410 of 15,182 homes95%
- Gwinn Area Community Schools360 of 15,182 homes2.4%
399 of the 15,182 homes here have no high school district named in the federal file.
Below half a percent at the high school level: Negaunee Public Schools and N.I.C.E. Community Schools hold 13 homes between them, which is why they are counted under the list rather than inside it. A lookup that named them alongside the districts above would be listing a boundary crossing rather than an answer.
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A ZIP Code names every district that can serve the area; a street address settles which one serves a home. The Census Bureau geocoder takes an exact address and returns its school districts from the current boundary files, free and with no account.
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Then confirm it with the district office. Each district named here, with its NCES district ID, website and phone:
- Marquette Area Public Schools NCES ID 2600013 mapsnet.org (906) 225-5326
- Powell Township Schools NCES ID 2629190 powellschool.com (906) 345-9355
- Gwinn Area Community Schools NCES ID 2614690 gwinnschools.org (906) 346-9283
A district runs the early grades only
Powell Township Schools 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 49855
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 49855 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 15,182 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 772 homes and for high school it is wrong for 772 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 49855
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Gwinn Area Community Schools touches 6 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 360 homes inside this one; Powell Township Schools touches 3 areas. Not one of them is ever the only district in a ZIP Code area anywhere in the country: every postal area they touch, they share with somebody.
- Marquette Area Public Schools14,410 of 15,182 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
- Powell Township Schools399 of 15,182 here · 3 ZIP areas in all
- Gwinn Area Community Schools360 of 15,182 here · 6 ZIP areas in all
Where Marquette Area goes from here
Marquette Area Public Schools runs kindergarten through grade 12, and it shares 3 of the 4 ZIP Code areas it touches with neighbors, holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 1, and is the only district in none of them. Inside its own boundary it holds 14,441 homes over 127 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 49855 is 14,410 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Gwinn Area Community Schools, across 2 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 49885 it holds 18 of 980 homes, or 1.8% of them.
How 49855 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, 228 areas in Michigan name more than this ZIP Code does and 536 name fewer. Nationally more than one district is named in 53% of 33,555 areas.
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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 49855 recomputes the same 15,182 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: 772 of the 15,182 homes counted in 49855 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.