Kendrick Joint School District 283

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

945 homes hold 1,743 residents, about 1.8 people each. Where households are small, a district's share of the homes overstates its share of the children, and this page counts homes.

• Homes inside the boundary945
• Residents1,743
• ZIP Code areas it reaches4
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district2
• Where it holds under half a percent2
• Land area166 square miles
• Homes per square mile6

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 83537 this district holds 94% of the homes; in 83871 it holds 1 home, 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 83537 · Kendrick, Idaho94% of the homes
• ZIP Code 83535 · Juliaetta, Idaho67% of the homes
• ZIP Code 83823 · Deary, Idaho3 homes, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 83871 · Troy, Idaho1 home, under half a percent

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Kendrick Joint School District 283 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 221 of the 1,162 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.

Kendrick Joint School District 283 holds 375 of the 559 homes in ZIP Code 83535 · Juliaetta, Idaho, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 184 homes with Lapwai School District 341 and Genesee Joint School District 282.

In ZIP Code 83537 · Kendrick, Idaho the split runs 566 to 37 and the larger part is Kendrick Joint School District 283's: the rest is 35 homes with Orofino Joint School District 171 and 2 homes in districts too small to name here.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Kendrick Joint School District 283 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 — Troy School District 287, Whitepine Joint School District 288 and Lapwai School District 341. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Troy School District 287857 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Whitepine Joint School District 288636 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Lapwai School District 341163 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Orofino Joint School District 17135 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Genesee Joint School District 28221 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Kendrick Joint School District 283 in the same ZIP Code areas: Genesee Joint School District 282, Lapwai School District 341 and Orofino Joint School District 171. 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.

• Genesee Joint School District 2821 shared ZIP area
• Lapwai School District 3411 shared ZIP area
• Orofino Joint School District 1711 shared ZIP area

Where this district sits

• School districts in Idaho120 of 278 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 2 of the 4 ZIP Code areas Kendrick Joint School District 283 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.