School districts in Nevada
Nevada is unusual: only 12% 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 — Clark County alone covers 917,655 homes. That makes the 21 areas that do cross a line worth naming rather than assuming. The two districts that share the most ZIP Codes here are Washoe County and Storey County, in 2 of them. Counted by homes rather than by ZIP Code area, 5.9% 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%. Clark County alone covers 917,655 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 district177
- Served by more than one district21 (12%)
- Grade school and high school differ0 (0%)
- No high school district named0
- Unified districts17
- Elementary districts0
- Secondary districts0
- Homes in no district at all0
The most divided ZIP Code area in Nevada
ZIP Code area 89010 holds 198 homes and 3 districts take a real share of them for the early grades, but Esmeralda County holds 93% on its own at that level. This is the shape that makes a single-name lookup look right: it names Esmeralda County and describes most of the homes here, and silently not the rest.
Each percentage here is a share of the 198 homes counted in ZIP Code 89010, 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 198 homes counted in ZIP Code 89010, so one cell is 6 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.
- Esmeralda County School District185 of 198 homes93%
- Eastern Sierra Unified School District10 of 198 homes5.1%
- Mineral County School District3 of 198 homes1.5%
For grade school, an answer of one district name would be wrong for 13 of the 198 here.
Where a single district name still works in Nevada
Across the 177 ZIP Code areas in Nevada with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 3,872 of the 1,281,131 homes they hold. That is 0.3% of the state, and in 151 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 89706 · Carson City, Nevada the largest district for grade school is Carson City, and naming it alone misses 711 of the 9,099 homes counted there. The rest are with Lyon County.
In ZIP Code 89444 · Smith Valley, Nevada the largest district for grade school is Douglas County, and naming it alone misses 655 of the 1,517 homes counted there. The rest are with Lyon County.
In ZIP Code 89521 · Reno, Nevada the largest district for grade school is Washoe County, and naming it alone misses 601 of the 16,482 homes counted there. The rest are with Storey County.
Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district
Of the 177 ZIP Code areas in Nevada that the federal file names a district for, 21 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 3 districts in one postal area: Dyer, Sandy Valley and Tonopah. No district in Nevada has a page of its own here yet — the corpus is chosen by the homes a district covers, and the districts in this state are small — so each row below opens the full answer for that ZIP Code in the lookup instead.
- ZIP Code 89010 · Dyer, Nevada3 districts · 198 homes
- ZIP Code 89019 · Sandy Valley, Nevada2 districts · 1,766 homes
- ZIP Code 89049 · Tonopah, Nevada2 districts · 1,303 homes
- ZIP Code 89061 · Pahrump, Nevada2 districts · 4,107 homes
- ZIP Code 89310 · Kingston, Nevada2 districts · 410 homes
- ZIP Code 89316 · Eureka, Nevada2 districts · 543 homes
- ZIP Code 89403 · Dayton, Nevada2 districts · 6,862 homes
- ZIP Code 89408 · Fernley, Nevada2 districts · 8,758 homes
- ZIP Code 89409 · Gabbs, Nevada2 districts · 145 homes
- ZIP Code 89412 · Gerlach, Nevada2 districts · 152 homes
- ZIP Code 89414 · Golconda, Nevada2 districts · 150 homes
- ZIP Code 89421 · Fort McDermitt, Nevada2 districts · 246 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: 21 of the 177 ZIP Code areas in Nevada 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.