Person County Schools
North Carolina · runs pre-K through grade 12
Person County Schools is the only school district serving 1 of the 10 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 7 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 2. It covers 18,284 homes and 39,097 residents. By homes covered it ranks 65th of the 118 districts in North Carolina.
Where this district is the answer, and where it is not
The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Person County Schools, 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 boundary18,284
- Residents39,097
- ZIP Code areas it reaches10
- Where it is the only district1
- Where it shares with another district7
- Where it holds under half a percent2
- Land area392 square miles
- Homes per square mile47
The ZIP Code areas it reaches
The spread is the thing to notice. In 27573 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 27231 it holds 4 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 27573 · Roxboro, North Carolina100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 27574 · Roxboro, North Carolina99% of the homes
- ZIP Code 27583 · Rougemont, North Carolina97% of the homes
- ZIP Code 27343 · Cunningham, North Carolina73% of the homes
- ZIP Code 27541 · Bushy Fork, North Carolina66% of the homes
- ZIP Code 27291 · Leasburg, North Carolina38% of the homes
- ZIP Code 27572 · Rougemont, North Carolina36% of the homes
- ZIP Code 27305 · Milton, North Carolina2.5% of the homes
- ZIP Code 27565 · Oxford, North Carolina51 homes, under half a percent
- ZIP Code 27231 · Cedar Grove, North Carolina4 homes, under half a percent
The areas it leads without holding most of the homes
Person County Schools is the largest district in 6 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 3,001 of the 20,852 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.
Person County Schools is the largest name in ZIP Code 27572 · Rougemont, North Carolina and still holds a minority of it: 1,065 of 2,975 homes. The other 1,910 homes are with Orange County Schools, Durham and Granville County Schools. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.
Person County Schools holds 1,178 of the 1,796 homes in ZIP Code 27541 · Bushy Fork, North Carolina, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 618 homes with Orange County Schools and Caswell County Schools.
ZIP Code 27343 · Cunningham, North Carolina is a two-district area: 906 of its 1,241 homes are inside Person County Schools, and the other 335 homes are with Caswell County Schools. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.
In ZIP Code 27583 · Rougemont, North Carolina the split runs 2,958 to 88 and the larger part is Person County Schools': the rest is 88 homes with Orange County Schools and Durham.
In ZIP Code 27574 · Roxboro, North Carolina the split runs 6,435 to 50 and the larger part is Person County Schools': the rest is 50 homes with Granville County Schools.
Person County Schools reaches into ZIP Code 27291 · Leasburg, North Carolina with 360 of its 948 homes, behind Caswell County Schools. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 360 homes.
Person County Schools is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 27305 · Milton, North Carolina — Caswell County Schools leads it — and Person County Schools holds 18 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
Person 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 — Granville County Schools, Orange County Schools and Caswell County Schools. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.
- Granville County Schools10,740 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
- Orange County Schools2,400 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
- Caswell County Schools1,647 homes in 5 shared ZIP Code areas
- Durham Public Schools832 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
- Vance County Schools292 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
Who it shares ZIP Codes with
These districts appear alongside Person County Schools in the same ZIP Code areas: Caswell County Schools, Orange County Schools, Durham and Granville 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.
- Caswell County Schools4 shared ZIP areas
- Orange County Schools3 shared ZIP areas
- Durham Public Schools2 shared ZIP areas
- Granville County Schools2 shared ZIP areas
Where this district sits
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 7 of the 10 ZIP Code areas Person 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.