Athens City School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Athens City, grouped by the ZIP Code area each block falls in. The Census Bureau publishes the blocks; the grouping is computed here, and it is the only place these particular numbers exist.

• Homes inside the boundary11,657
• Residents26,240
• ZIP Code areas it reaches5
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district4
• Where it holds under half a percent1
• Land area42 square miles
• Homes per square mile278

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

Every one of the 4 areas where it holds a real share it shares with somebody. Its largest foothold is 35611 at 61% of the homes; the thinnest is 35756, where it holds 26 homes, under half a percent.

• ZIP Code 35611 · Athens, Alabama61% of the homes
• ZIP Code 35613 · Athens, Alabama36% of the homes
• ZIP Code 35671 · Decatur, Alabama14% of the homes
• ZIP Code 35614 · Athens, Alabama10% of the homes
• ZIP Code 35756 · Huntsville, Alabama26 homes, under half a percent

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Athens City is the largest district in 1 ZIP Code area, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 4,944 of the 12,830 homes those areas hold. That count is computed here from census blocks; the lookups that answer this question with a single name never print it.

ZIP Code 35611 · Athens, Alabama is a two-district area: 7,886 of its 12,830 homes are inside Athens City, and the other 4,944 homes are with Limestone County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

Athens City reaches into ZIP Code 35613 · Athens, Alabama with 3,280 of its 9,207 homes, behind Limestone County. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 3,280 homes.

ZIP Code 35614 · Athens, Alabama is another area where Athens City is present without being the answer: 338 of its 3,379 homes, behind Limestone County.

Athens City reaches into ZIP Code 35671 · Decatur, Alabama with 127 of its 917 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Limestone County leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 127 homes.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Athens City runs kindergarten through grade 12 itself, so an address it holds sees no change of authority between grade school and high school. The districts listed below are the ones that take the other homes in the ZIP Code areas it shares — Limestone County, Madison City and Huntsville City. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Limestone County School District16,422 homes in 5 shared ZIP Code areas
• Madison City School District3,616 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Huntsville City School District2,083 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Madison County School District1,224 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Decatur City School District27 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Athens City in the same ZIP Code areas: Limestone County and Decatur City. A single-name lookup for one of those areas has to choose between them, and the choice is right for some addresses and wrong for others.

• Limestone County School District4 shared ZIP areas
• Decatur City School District1 shared ZIP area

Where this district sits

• School districts in Alabama332 of 648 ZIP areas split
• Every district with a page here260 districts listed

What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address. A district settles that question on its own site: look for a school locator, a find my school tool, or an attendance zone map. Where there is none, ask the office itself.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: in 4 of the 5 ZIP Code areas Athens City reaches, at least one other district holds a real share of the homes as well, and the line between them runs along streets. Only the district can say which side of that line an address is on.

This site links to no district website. None of the federal files it is built from publishes one, and a guessed address is worse than none. It is the district office, not a search engine, that settles an address.

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.

What this cannot tell you

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file. Nothing on this page adjusts one to the other. Where houses have been built or cleared since the count, a share here describes the place as it was counted rather than as it stands today, and in the fastest-growing ZIP Code areas that gap is the largest single source of error on this site.

A share on this page is a share of the homes in the ZIP Code area, not a probability for any particular address. Enrollment is decided by street address, and a district may run magnet, charter or choice programs that ignore the boundary entirely. If a decision depends on the answer, the district office is the only authority; this page shows what the federal boundary files say and when they were published.

A district boundary is not a school attendance zone. This site never says which school an address is assigned to: no current national dataset of attendance zones exists, and the district draws them itself. Nor is anything here endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau; we use their published files, and that is the whole of the relationship.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not an area. What is mapped here is the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Area, the closest published approximation to it. The two are not identical, and a handful of ZIP Codes used only for post office boxes or single buildings have no tabulation area at all.

Where these numbers come from

School district boundaries come from the Census Bureau's Census Geographic Relationship File, current 2026 vintage, which assigns every census block to a unified district or to an elementary and a secondary district. Homes and residents in each block come from the 2020 Census Redistricting Data (PL 94-171), H1_001 and P1_001. The ZIP Code areas come from the same Geographic Relationship File, block to ZIP Code Tabulation Area. District names and grade ranges come from the Census Gazetteer 2025, with 2020 for districts no longer listed.

The place name printed beside a ZIP Code comes from the Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Area relationship files: place, county subdivision and county, taken 2026-09-06. It is a label rather than a measurement: the Census Bureau does not publish which post office a ZIP Code belongs to, so the place named is the one covering the most land inside the area, not the city the Postal Service prints on an envelope.

Everything else on this page — the shares, the counts of districts per ZIP, the comparison between the two grade bands, the rankings — is computed here from those files. The source publishes none of it. Snapshot taken 2026-09-03.