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West Fargo Public School District 6

North Dakota · runs pre-K through grade 12

West Fargo Public School District 6 covers 33,979 of the homes in 9 ZIP Code areas, but its smallest measured presence is a different thing entirely: in ZIP Code area 58059 it holds 6 of 619 homes, or 1.0% of them. An address in that ZIP Code is almost certainly not in this district, and a lookup that names the district without the share says the opposite.

A few homes at the edge of someone else's ZIP Code

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to West Fargo Public School District 6, 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 boundary33,979
  • Residents76,476
  • 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 area124 square miles
  • Homes per square mile275

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 58078 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 58059 it holds 1.0% 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 58078 · West Fargo, North Dakota100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 58042 · Harwood, North Dakota94% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 58047 · Horace, North Dakota77% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 58104 · Fargo, North Dakota43% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 58103 · Fargo, North Dakota26% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 58005 · Argusville, North Dakota7.3% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 58021 · Horace, North Dakota3.4% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 58102 · Fargo, North Dakota1.7% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 58059 · Mapleton, North Dakota1.0% of the homes

What one name misses where high school is arranged elsewhere

West Fargo Public School District 6 is the largest district in 3 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 410 of the 18,315 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.

West Fargo Public School District 6 holds 1,168 of the 1,519 homes in ZIP Code 58047 · Horace, North Dakota, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 351 homes with Kindred Public School District 2 and Fargo Public School District 1.

In ZIP Code 58042 · Harwood, North Dakota the split runs 484 to 32 and the larger part is West Fargo Public School District 6's: the rest is 30 homes with Central Cass Public School District 17 and 2 homes in districts too small to name here.

ZIP Code 58078 · West Fargo, North Dakota is a two-district area: 16,253 of its 16,280 homes are inside West Fargo Public School District 6, and the other 27 homes are in a district too small to name here. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

ZIP Code 58104 · Fargo, North Dakota is close to being two districts in equal parts: West Fargo Public School District 6 holds 9,451 of its 21,835 homes and Fargo Public School District 1 leads the rest. A lookup that picks the larger name is making a coin-toss look like a fact.

West Fargo Public School District 6 reaches into ZIP Code 58103 · Fargo, North Dakota with 6,314 of its 24,551 homes, behind Fargo Public School District 1. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 6,314 homes.

West Fargo Public School District 6 is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 58102 · Fargo, North Dakota — Fargo Public School District 1 leads it — and West Fargo Public School District 6 holds 276 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 58005 · Argusville, North Dakota is another area where West Fargo Public School District 6 is present without being the answer: 21 of its 287 homes, behind Northern Cass Public School District 97.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

West Fargo Public School District 6 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 — Fargo Public School District 1, Mapleton Public School District 7 and Kindred Public School District 2. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Fargo Public School District 146,326 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Mapleton Public School District 7522 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Kindred Public School District 2463 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Northern Cass Public School District 97249 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
  • Central Cass Public School District 17139 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

West Fargo Public School District 6 appears alongside a mix of district kinds — Central Cass Public School District 17, Fargo Public School District 1, Kindred Public School District 2 and Northern Cass Public School District 97. Where the kinds differ, the two are not competing for the same address: one takes the lower grades and the other takes high school, and a household may be served by both.

  • Central Cass Public School District 174 shared ZIP areas
  • Fargo Public School District 14 shared ZIP areas
  • Kindred Public School District 23 shared ZIP areas
  • Northern Cass Public School District 971 shared ZIP area
  • Mapleton Public School District 71 shared ZIP area

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 8 of the 9 ZIP Code areas West Fargo Public School District 6 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.