ZIP Code 65401 · Rolla, Missouri
Phelps County · 14,567 counted · 4 districts
272 of the 14,567 homes here have no high school district named in the federal file.
Each percentage here is a share of the 14,567 homes counted in ZIP Code 65401, 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.
4 districts are named for the early grades in ZIP Code 65401, Rolla, Missouri 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. 14,567 homes were counted, and Rolla 31 School District 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 823: 735 homes with St. James R-I, Dent-Phelps R-III and Newburg R-II; 88 homes in districts too small to name here.
The early grades are divided four ways
4 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 65401 at this level. Rolla 31 is the largest with 13,744 homes; the smallest of them holds 199 homes. Dent-Phelps R-III is named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 14,567 homes counted in ZIP Code 65401, so one cell is 416 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.
- Rolla 31 School District13,744 of 14,567 homes94%
- St. James R-I School District289 of 14,567 homes2.0%
- Dent-Phelps R-III School District247 of 14,567 homes1.7%
- Newburg R-II School District199 of 14,567 homes1.4%
Below half a percent at the grade school level: Maries County R-I School District and Phelps County R-III School District hold 88 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.
Three districts share high school
3 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 65401 at this level. Rolla 31 is the largest with 13,744 homes; the smallest of them holds 199 homes.
- Rolla 31 School District13,744 of 14,567 homes94%
- St. James R-I School District289 of 14,567 homes2.0%
- Newburg R-II School District199 of 14,567 homes1.4%
Below half a percent at the high school level: Maries County R-I School District holds 63 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 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:
- Rolla 31 School District NCES ID 2926890 rolla31.org (573) 458-0100
- St. James R-I School District NCES ID 2929250 stjschools.org (573) 265-2300
- Dent-Phelps R-III School District NCES ID 2910710 dentphelps.org (573) 729-4680
- Newburg R-II School District NCES ID 2922140 newburg.k12.mo.us (573) 762-9653
A district runs the early grades only
Dent-Phelps R-III 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 65401
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 65401 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 14,567 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 823 homes and for high school it is wrong for 823 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 65401
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. St. James R-I touches 6 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 289 homes inside this one; Dent-Phelps R-III touches 4 areas. Rolla 31 is the only district in at least one ZIP Code area somewhere in the country, while St. James R-I is never the only one anywhere: every postal area it touches, it shares.
- Rolla 31 School District13,744 of 14,567 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
- St. James R-I School District289 of 14,567 here · 6 ZIP areas in all
- Dent-Phelps R-III School District247 of 14,567 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
- Newburg R-II School District199 of 14,567 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
Where Rolla 31 goes from here
Rolla 31 School District runs pre-K through grade 12, and it is the only school district serving 1 of the 5 ZIP Code areas it touches, and shares the other 4 with neighbors. Inside its own boundary it holds 14,000 homes over 205 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 65401 is 13,744 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is St. James R-I School District, across 3 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 65559 it holds 73 of 4,061 homes, or 1.8% of them.
How 65401 compares in Missouri
Across Missouri the boundary file names more than one district in 749 of the 1,034 ZIP Code areas it names a district for, 72% of them, and 140 areas in the state have no high school district named for part of their homes. Counting the districts named at either level, 73 areas in Missouri name more than this ZIP Code does and 822 name fewer. Nationally more than one district is named in 53% of 33,555 areas.
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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: 823 of the 14,567 homes counted in 65401 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.