School districts in Florida
Florida is unusual: only 11% of its populated ZIP Code areas are served by more than one school district, where the national figure is 53%. Districts here are large enough, or ZIP Code areas small enough, that the two mostly line up — Dade County alone covers 1,074,684 homes. That makes the 112 areas that do cross a line worth naming rather than assuming. Its most divided ZIP Code area, 32008, is split between 4 districts for elementary grades alone. The two districts that share the most ZIP Codes here are Hillsborough County and Pasco County, in 6 of them. Counted by homes rather than by ZIP Code area, 8.7% of the state's housing sits in a ZIP Code that more than one district serves.
ZIP Codes and district lines mostly agree here
The state sits well below the national rate of 53%. Dade County alone covers 1,074,684 homes, and districts that size swallow whole postal areas rather than splitting them. Where a ZIP Code area here does cross a line, it is worth checking precisely because it is unusual.
- ZIP Code areas with a district1,006
- Served by more than one district112 (11%)
- Grade school and high school differ0 (0%)
- No high school district named0
- Unified districts67
- Elementary districts0
- Secondary districts0
- Homes in no district at all0
The largest districts in Florida
Ranked by the homes inside their boundaries: Dade County leads at 1,074,684, then Broward County and Palm Beach County. Only districts with a page here are linked; 64 more exist in the state without one.
The most divided ZIP Code area in Florida
ZIP Code area 32008 holds 2,973 homes, and 4 districts each take a meaningful share of them for elementary grades — Suwannee County first at 44%, then Lafayette County. A lookup that names the first is describing that share of the homes and silently not the 1,652 homes that remain.
Each percentage here is a share of the 2,973 homes counted in ZIP Code 32008, 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 2,973 homes counted in ZIP Code 32008, so one cell is 85 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.
- Suwannee County School District1,321 of 2,973 homes44%
- Lafayette County School District800 of 2,973 homes27%
- Gilchrist County School District685 of 2,973 homes23%
- Dixie County School District167 of 2,973 homes5.6%
For grade school, an answer of one district name would be wrong for 1,652 of the 2,973 here.
Where a single district name still works in Florida
Across the 1,006 ZIP Code areas in Florida with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 123,326 of the 9,865,326 homes they hold. That is 1.3% of the state, and in 871 of the areas one name covers everything: this is a state where the familiar answer is usually the right one, and the areas below are where it is not.
In ZIP Code 32792 · Goldenrod, Florida the largest district for grade school is Orange County, and naming it alone misses 9,541 of the 24,200 homes counted there. The rest are with Seminole County.
In ZIP Code 34957 · Jensen Beach, Florida the largest district for grade school is Martin County, and naming it alone misses 6,752 of the 16,867 homes counted there. The rest are with St. Lucie County.
In ZIP Code 32159 · Lady Lake, Florida the largest district for grade school is Lake County, and naming it alone misses 5,904 of the 19,620 homes counted there. The rest are with Sumter County.
Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district
Of the 1,006 ZIP Code areas in Florida that the federal file names a district for, 112 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 4 districts in one postal area: Branford, Jacksonville and Putnam County. 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.
- ZIP Code 32008 · Branford, Florida4 districts · 2,973 homes
- ZIP Code 32234 · Jacksonville, Florida4 districts · 3,035 homes
- ZIP Code 32666 · Putnam County, Florida4 districts · 3,167 homes
- ZIP Code 34974 · Taylor Creek, Florida4 districts · 14,111 homes
- ZIP Code 32058 · Lawtey, Florida3 districts · 1,489 homes
- ZIP Code 32096 · White Springs, Florida3 districts · 1,421 homes
- ZIP Code 32331 · Greenville, Florida3 districts · 2,106 homes
- ZIP Code 32336 · Lamont, Florida3 districts · 816 homes
- ZIP Code 32438 · Bay County, Florida3 districts · 1,876 homes
- ZIP Code 32462 · Vernon, Florida3 districts · 1,831 homes
- ZIP Code 32466 · Bay County, Florida3 districts · 2,580 homes
- ZIP Code 32643 · High Springs, Florida3 districts · 5,336 homes
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: 112 of the 1,006 ZIP Code areas in Florida 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.