School districts in Arkansas

62% of the 614 populated ZIP Code areas in Arkansas are served by more than one school district — 379 of them, which puts the state 18th among the fifty-two. It is organized into 234 unified districts, the largest being Little Rock at 89,285 homes. Its most divided ZIP Code area, 72104, is split between 7 districts for elementary grades alone. The two districts that share the most ZIP Codes here are Little Rock and Pulaski County Special, in 7 of them. Counted by homes rather than by ZIP Code area, 79% of the state's housing sits in a ZIP Code that more than one district serves.

How often a ZIP Code here crosses a district line

The state is close to the national rate of 53%. Every count below comes from the census blocks in each ZIP Code area rather than from any published table; Little Rock is the largest district in it, at 89,285 homes.

ZIP Code areas with a district614
Served by more than one district379 (62%)
Grade school and high school differ0 (0%)
No high school district named0
Unified districts234
Elementary districts0
Secondary districts0
Homes in no district at all0

The largest districts in Arkansas

Ranked by the homes inside their boundaries: Little Rock leads at 89,285, then Pulaski County Special and Fayetteville. Only districts with a page here are linked; 227 more exist in the state without one.

The most divided ZIP Code area in Arkansas

ZIP Code area 72104 holds 9,668 homes and 7 districts take a real share of them for the early grades, but Malvern Special holds 69% on its own at that level. This is the shape that makes a single-name lookup look right: it names Malvern Special and describes most of the homes here, and silently not the rest.

Grade schoolMalvern Special School District69%6,686 of 9,668 homes

High schoolMalvern Special School District69%6,686 of 9,668 homes

Each percentage here is a share of the 9,668 homes counted in ZIP Code 72104, not the chance that any one address is in that district. Enrollment follows the street: two houses on opposite sides of the same road can be in different districts, and only the district office can say which.

Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 9,668 homes counted in ZIP Code 72104, so one cell is 276 homes, rounded to the nearest whole cell. Cells lit solid are the homes one district holds, and the unlit cells are the homes held by the other districts in the same list.

Malvern Special School District6,686 of 9,668 homes69%
Magnet Cove School District1,283 of 9,668 homes13%
Glen Rose School District1,153 of 9,668 homes12%
Bismarck Public Schools194 of 9,668 homes2.0%
Poyen School District131 of 9,668 homes1.4%
Ouachita School District115 of 9,668 homes1.2%
Benton School District106 of 9,668 homes1.1%

One further district reaches into this ZIP Code area and holds no homes in it.

For grade school, an answer of one district name would be wrong for 2,982 of the 9,668 here.

How much of Arkansas a single district name misses

Across the 614 ZIP Code areas in Arkansas with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 206,336 of the 1,365,094 homes they hold — 15% of the state. In 208 of those areas the single name is the whole truth; in the other 406 it is not.

ZIP Code 71913 · Hot Springs, Arkansas names 6 districts. Hot Springs is the largest of them for grade school, and an answer of its name alone misses 14,648 of the 25,469 homes there; Lake Hamilton, Lakeside and Mountain Pine hold the rest.

ZIP Code 71901 · Hot Springs, Arkansas names 4 districts. Hot Springs is the largest of them for grade school, and an answer of its name alone misses 7,829 of the 14,364 homes there; Lakeside, Cutter-Morning Star and Fountain Lake hold the rest.

In ZIP Code 72450 · Paragould, Arkansas the largest district for grade school is Paragould, and naming it alone misses 7,510 of the 16,545 homes counted there. The rest are with Greene County Technical and Marmaduke.

Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district

Of the 614 ZIP Code areas in Arkansas that the federal file names a district for, 379 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 7 districts in one postal area: Malvern, Hot Springs and Heber Springs. Each row opens the full answer for that ZIP Code, with every district named for grade school and for high school and the share of the homes each one holds.

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: 379 of the 614 ZIP Code areas in Arkansas with a district named for them are served by more than one school district, and the line between two of 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.