Lubbock Independent School District

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

At 932 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Lubbock Independent covers 87 square miles in all — small enough that a single ZIP Code area can hold most of it, and several ZIP Codes can cut across it.

• Homes inside the boundary80,627
• Residents186,504
• ZIP Code areas it reaches15
• Where it is the only district7
• Where it shares with another district7
• Where it holds under half a percent1
• Land area87 square miles
• Homes per square mile932

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 79413 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 79402 it holds no homes at all. 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 79413 · Lubbock, Texas100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 79414 · Lubbock, Texas100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 79412 · Lubbock, Texas100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 79401 · Lubbock, Texas100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 79410 · Lubbock, Texas100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 79411 · Lubbock, Texas100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 79406 · Lubbock, Texas100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 79415 · Lubbock, Texas87% of the homes
• ZIP Code 79404 · Lubbock, Texas84% of the homes
• ZIP Code 79403 · Lubbock, Texas68% of the homes
• ZIP Code 79416 · Lubbock, Texas62% of the homes
• ZIP Code 79423 · Lubbock, Texas54% of the homes
• ZIP Code 79424 · Lubbock, Texas39% of the homes
• ZIP Code 79407 · Lubbock, Texas20% of the homes
• ZIP Code 79402 · Lubbock, Texasno homes at all

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Lubbock Independent is the largest district in 13 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 31,564 of the 109,904 homes those areas hold — though in 7 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Lubbock Independent is the largest name in ZIP Code 79424 · Lubbock, Texas and still holds a minority of it: 8,743 of 22,565 homes. The other 13,822 homes are with Frenship Independent and Lubbock-Cooper Independent. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

Lubbock Independent holds 9,462 of the 17,584 homes in ZIP Code 79423 · Lubbock, Texas, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 8,079 homes with Lubbock-Cooper Independent and 43 homes in districts too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 79416 · Lubbock, Texas the split runs 9,730 to 5,849 and the larger part is Lubbock Independent's: the rest is 5,849 homes with Frenship Independent and Shallowater Independent.

Lubbock Independent is one of 7 districts the file names for ZIP Code 79403 · Lubbock, Texas at that level. It holds 4,489 of the 6,601 homes there; the rest is 2,102 homes with Roosevelt Independent, New Deal Independent and Idalou Independent and 10 homes in districts too small to name here. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 2,112 of the homes in it.

ZIP Code 79404 · Lubbock, Texas repeats the pattern with 4 names holding a real share: 3,370 of its 4,016 homes are Lubbock Independent's, and the other 646 are not.

Lubbock Independent reaches into ZIP Code 79407 · Lubbock, Texas with 2,287 of its 11,472 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Frenship Independent leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 2,287 homes.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Lubbock Independent 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 — Frenship Independent, Lubbock-Cooper Independent and Roosevelt Independent. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Frenship Independent School District22,427 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Lubbock-Cooper Independent School District14,329 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Roosevelt Independent School District1,747 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• New Deal Independent School District1,243 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Smyer Independent School District404 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Idalou Independent School District213 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Lubbock Independent shares ZIP Code areas with 8 different districts. The most frequent are Lubbock-Cooper Independent, Frenship Independent, New Deal Independent and Roosevelt Independent. 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.

• Lubbock-Cooper Independent School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Frenship Independent School District3 shared ZIP areas
• New Deal Independent School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Roosevelt Independent School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Shallowater Independent School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Idalou Independent School District1 shared ZIP area

Where this district sits

• School districts in Texas1,238 of 1,976 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 7 of the 15 ZIP Code areas Lubbock Independent 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.