Dallas Center-Grimes Community School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Dallas Center-Grimes Community, 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 boundary6,055
• Residents15,744
• ZIP Code areas it reaches8
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district4
• Where it holds under half a percent4
• Land area79 square miles
• Homes per square mile77

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 50063 this district holds 94% of the homes; in 50322 it holds 2 homes, under half a percent. Same district, opposite answers, and a lookup that names it without the share tells the second household the same thing as the first.

• ZIP Code 50063 · Dallas Center, Iowa94% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50111 · Grimes, Iowa79% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50167 · Minburn, Iowa2.2% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50003 · Adel, Iowa0.7% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50276 · Woodward, Iowa4 homes, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 50263 · Waukee, Iowa13 homes, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 50323 · Urbandale, Iowa1 home, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 50322 · Urbandale, Iowa2 homes, under half a percent

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Dallas Center-Grimes Community 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 1,405 of the 7,408 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.

Dallas Center-Grimes Community holds 4,922 of the 6,260 homes in ZIP Code 50111 · Grimes, Iowa, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 1,314 homes with Johnston Community and 24 homes in districts too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 50063 · Dallas Center, Iowa the split runs 1,081 to 67 and the larger part is Dallas Center-Grimes Community's: the rest is 67 homes with Woodward-Granger Community and Waukee Community.

Dallas Center-Grimes Community is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 50003 · Adel, Iowa — Adel-De Soto-Minburn Community leads it — and Dallas Center-Grimes Community holds 25 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 50167 · Minburn, Iowa is another area where Dallas Center-Grimes Community is present without being the answer: 7 of its 313 homes, behind Adel-De Soto-Minburn Community.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Dallas Center-Grimes Community 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 — Waukee Community, Urbandale Community and Johnston Community. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Waukee Community School District14,037 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Urbandale Community School District9,216 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Johnston Community School District3,882 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Adel-De Soto-Minburn Community School District3,453 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• West Des Moines Community School District2,255 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Des Moines Independent Community School District1,525 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Dallas Center-Grimes Community shares ZIP Code areas with 8 different districts. The most frequent are Adel-De Soto-Minburn Community, Earlham Community, Johnston Community and Perry Community. 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.

• Adel-De Soto-Minburn Community School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Earlham Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• Johnston Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• Perry Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• West Central Valley Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• Van Meter Community School District1 shared ZIP area

Where this district sits

• School districts in Iowa678 of 969 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 8 ZIP Code areas Dallas Center-Grimes Community 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.