Rockbridge County Public Schools

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

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Rockbridge County, 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 boundary11,261
• Residents22,650
• ZIP Code areas it reaches13
• Where it is the only district6
• Where it shares with another district7
• Where it holds under half a percent0
• Land area597 square miles
• Homes per square mile19

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 24555 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 24066 it holds 1.8% 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 24555 · Glasgow, Virginia100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 24435 · Fairfield, Virginia100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 24579 · Rockbridge County, Virginia100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 24473 · Rockbridge County, Virginia100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 24578 · Rockbridge County, Virginia100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 24415 · Rockbridge County, Virginia100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 24439 · Goshen, Virginia83% of the homes
• ZIP Code 24450 · Lexington, Virginia66% of the homes
• ZIP Code 24483 · Rockbridge County, Virginia66% of the homes
• ZIP Code 24472 · Fairfield, Virginia62% of the homes
• ZIP Code 24416 · Buena Vista, Virginia26% of the homes
• ZIP Code 24459 · Middlebrook, Virginia10.0% of the homes
• ZIP Code 24066 · Buchanan, Virginia1.8% of the homes

What one name misses where high school is arranged elsewhere

Rockbridge County is the largest district in 10 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 3,322 of the 13,490 homes those areas hold — though in 6 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Rockbridge County holds 4,998 of the 7,616 homes in ZIP Code 24450 · Lexington, Virginia, and 2,617 of the homes counted there have no high school district named for them in the federal file at all. A lookup that answers with one name misses 2,618 of them, and it also misses the arrangement: the only high school district the file names here is Rockbridge County.

ZIP Code 24472 · Fairfield, Virginia is a two-district area: 742 of its 1,193 homes are inside Rockbridge County, and the other 451 homes are with Augusta County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

Rockbridge County holds 272 of the 415 homes in ZIP Code 24483 · Rockbridge County, Virginia, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 143 homes with Amherst County and Nelson County.

In ZIP Code 24439 · Goshen, Virginia the split runs 550 to 110 and the larger part is Rockbridge County's: the rest is 110 homes with Augusta County.

In ZIP Code 24415 · Rockbridge County, Virginia the single-name answer is the true one: Rockbridge County holds all 48 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

Rockbridge County reaches into ZIP Code 24416 · Buena Vista, Virginia with 1,015 of its 3,963 homes, behind Buena Vista City. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 1,015 homes.

Rockbridge County is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 24066 · Buchanan, Virginia — Botetourt County leads it — and Rockbridge County holds 42 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 24459 · Middlebrook, Virginia is another area where Rockbridge County is present without being the answer: 36 of its 361 homes, behind Augusta County.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Rockbridge County 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 — Buena Vista City, Lexington City and Botetourt County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Buena Vista City Public Schools2,948 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Lexington City Public Schools2,617 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Botetourt County Public Schools2,334 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Augusta County Public Schools886 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Amherst County Public Schools89 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Nelson County Public Schools54 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Rockbridge County shares ZIP Code areas with 6 different districts. The most frequent are Augusta County, Amherst County, Botetourt County and Buena Vista City. 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.

• Augusta County Public Schools3 shared ZIP areas
• Amherst County Public Schools1 shared ZIP area
• Botetourt County Public Schools1 shared ZIP area
• Buena Vista City Public Schools1 shared ZIP area
• Lexington City Public Schools1 shared ZIP area
• Nelson County Public Schools1 shared ZIP area

Where this district sits

• School districts in Virginia294 of 895 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 13 ZIP Code areas Rockbridge County 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.