Montgomery County Schools

Where this district is the answer, and where it is not

14,773 homes hold 25,751 residents, about 1.7 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 boundary14,773
• Residents25,751
• ZIP Code areas it reaches9
• Where it is the only district1
• Where it shares with another district8
• Where it holds under half a percent0
• Land area492 square miles
• Homes per square mile30

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 27247 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 27341 it holds 7.4% of the homes. 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 27247 · Star, North Carolina100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 27229 · Candor, North Carolina98% of the homes
• ZIP Code 27306 · Mount Gilead, North Carolina97% of the homes
• ZIP Code 27371 · Troy, North Carolina97% of the homes
• ZIP Code 27209 · Biscoe, North Carolina90% of the homes
• ZIP Code 27356 · Star, North Carolina89% of the homes
• ZIP Code 28127 · New London, North Carolina48% of the homes
• ZIP Code 27281 · Foxfire, North Carolina26% of the homes
• ZIP Code 27341 · Seagrove, North Carolina7.4% of the homes

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Montgomery County Schools is the largest district in 7 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 2,962 of the 17,174 homes those areas hold — though in 1 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Montgomery County Schools is the largest name in ZIP Code 28127 · New London, North Carolina and still holds a minority of it: 2,215 of 4,573 homes. The other 2,358 homes are 2,350 with Stanly County Schools and Davidson County Schools; 8 in districts too small to name here. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

ZIP Code 27356 · Star, North Carolina is a two-district area: 1,215 of its 1,371 homes are inside Montgomery County Schools, and the other 156 homes are with Moore County Schools. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 27209 · Biscoe, North Carolina the split runs 1,427 to 153 and the larger part is Montgomery County Schools': the rest is 153 homes with Moore County Schools.

In ZIP Code 27247 · Star, North Carolina the single-name answer is the true one: Montgomery County Schools holds all 50 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

Montgomery County Schools reaches into ZIP Code 27281 · Foxfire, North Carolina with 385 of its 1,500 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Moore County Schools leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 385 homes.

Montgomery County Schools is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 27341 · Seagrove, North Carolina — Randolph County Schools leads it — and Montgomery County Schools holds 176 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Montgomery County Schools 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 — Stanly County Schools, Moore County Schools and Randolph County Schools. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Stanly County Schools2,180 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Moore County Schools2,006 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
• Randolph County Schools1,682 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Richmond County Schools225 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Davidson County Schools170 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Montgomery County Schools in the same ZIP Code areas: Moore County Schools, Richmond County Schools, Randolph County Schools and Davidson County Schools. 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.

• Moore County Schools4 shared ZIP areas
• Richmond County Schools3 shared ZIP areas
• Randolph County Schools2 shared ZIP areas
• Davidson County Schools1 shared ZIP area
• Stanly County Schools1 shared ZIP area

Where this district sits

• School districts in North Carolina323 of 848 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 8 of the 9 ZIP Code areas Montgomery County Schools 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.