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Gilmer County School District

West Virginia · runs pre-K through grade 12

Gilmer County covers 3,090 of the homes in 16 ZIP Code areas, but its smallest measured presence is a different thing entirely: in ZIP Code area 26411 it holds 3 of 383 homes, or 0.8% 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

By homes covered Gilmer County sits in the bottom quarter of the 55 districts in West Virginia, and that is the interesting part: a small district still shows up in 16 ZIP Code areas, because a ZIP Code area does not shrink to fit.

  • Homes inside the boundary3,090
  • Residents7,408
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches16
  • Where it is the only district3
  • Where it shares with another district13
  • Where it holds under half a percent0
  • Land area339 square miles
  • Homes per square mile9

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 26342 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 26411 it holds 0.8% 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 26342 · Gilmer County, West Virginia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 26430 · Sand Fork, West Virginia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 26611 · Gilmer County, West Virginia100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 26351 · Glenville, West Virginia99% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 25267 · Gilmer County, West Virginia93% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 26443 · Gilmer County, West Virginia91% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 26384 · Gilmer County, West Virginia88% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 26638 · Gilmer County, West Virginia77% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 26636 · Braxton County, West Virginia49% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 26137 · Gilmer County, West Virginia27% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 26335 · Burnsville, West Virginia18% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 26412 · Burnsville, West Virginia16% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 26623 · Braxton County, West Virginia1.7% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 26147 · Grantsville, West Virginia1.3% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 26624 · Gassaway, West Virginia1.1% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 26411 · Doddridge County, West Virginia0.8% of the homes

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Gilmer County is the largest district in 9 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 200 of the 2,997 homes those areas hold — though in 3 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Gilmer County is the largest name in ZIP Code 26636 · Braxton County, West Virginia and still holds a minority of it: 91 of 187 homes. The other 96 homes are with Braxton County and Calhoun County. 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 25267 · Gilmer County, West Virginia is a two-district area: 365 of its 392 homes are inside Gilmer County, and the other 27 homes are with Calhoun County. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 26384 · Gilmer County, West Virginia the split runs 192 to 27 and the larger part is Gilmer County's: the rest is 27 homes with Lewis County.

In ZIP Code 26342 · Gilmer County, West Virginia the single-name answer is the true one: Gilmer County holds all 258 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

ZIP Code 26430 · Sand Fork, West Virginia is another area where one name covers everything — 201 homes, all of them inside Gilmer County.

Gilmer County reaches into ZIP Code 26335 · Burnsville, West Virginia with 108 of its 605 homes, behind Braxton County. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 108 homes.

Gilmer County reaches into ZIP Code 26137 · Gilmer County, West Virginia with 102 of its 381 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Calhoun County leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 102 homes.

ZIP Code 26412 · Burnsville, West Virginia is another area where Gilmer County is present without being the answer: 45 of its 286 homes, behind Lewis County.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Gilmer 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 — Braxton County, Calhoun County and Doddridge County. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

  • Braxton County School District2,528 homes in 6 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Calhoun County School District1,228 homes in 5 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Doddridge County School District391 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Lewis County School District179 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
  • Ritchie County School District30 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Gilmer County in the same ZIP Code areas: Braxton County, Calhoun County, Doddridge County and Lewis County. 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.

  • Braxton County School District6 shared ZIP areas
  • Calhoun County School District5 shared ZIP areas
  • Doddridge County School District2 shared ZIP areas
  • Lewis County School District2 shared ZIP areas
  • Ritchie County School District1 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 13 of the 16 ZIP Code areas Gilmer 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.