Benton School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Benton, 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 boundary12,929
• Residents30,532
• ZIP Code areas it reaches6
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district5
• Where it holds under half a percent1
• Land area105 square miles
• Homes per square mile123

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

Every one of the 5 areas where it holds a real share it shares with somebody. Its largest foothold is 72015 at 57% of the homes; the thinnest is 71901, where it holds 51 homes, under half a percent.

• ZIP Code 72015 · Benton, Arkansas57% of the homes
• ZIP Code 72019 · Benton, Arkansas51% of the homes
• ZIP Code 72087 · Hot Springs Village, Arkansas27% of the homes
• ZIP Code 72011 · Bauxite, Arkansas2.7% of the homes
• ZIP Code 72104 · Malvern, Arkansas1.1% of the homes
• ZIP Code 71901 · Hot Springs, Arkansas51 homes, under half a percent

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Benton is the largest district in 2 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 10,738 of the 23,281 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.

Benton is one of 5 districts the file names for ZIP Code 72019 · Benton, Arkansas at that level. It holds 5,912 of the 11,571 homes there; the rest is 5,659 homes with Bryant, Harmony Grove, Glen Rose and 1 more district. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 5,659 of the homes in it.

ZIP Code 72015 · Benton, Arkansas repeats the pattern with 5 names holding a real share: 6,631 of its 11,710 homes are Benton's, and the other 5,079 are not.

Benton reaches into ZIP Code 72087 · Hot Springs Village, Arkansas with 180 of its 658 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Fountain Lake leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 180 homes.

Benton is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 72104 · Malvern, Arkansas — Malvern Special leads it — and Benton holds 106 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 72011 · Bauxite, Arkansas is another area where Benton is present without being the answer: 49 of its 1,797 homes, behind Bauxite.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Benton runs pre-K 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 — Bryant, Malvern Special and Hot Springs. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Bryant Public Schools7,124 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Malvern Special School District6,686 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Hot Springs School District6,535 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Lakeside School District5,140 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Bauxite School District2,802 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Harmony Grove School District2,056 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Benton shares ZIP Code areas with 10 different districts. The most frequent are Bryant, Glen Rose, Bauxite and Fountain Lake. In a neighborhood this crowded the question is not which district serves the ZIP Code but which side of which street an address is on.

• Bryant Public Schools3 shared ZIP areas
• Glen Rose School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Bauxite School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Fountain Lake School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Harmony Grove School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Magnet Cove School District2 shared ZIP areas

Where this district sits

• School districts in Arkansas379 of 614 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 5 of the 6 ZIP Code areas Benton 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.