School districts in Ohio
65% of the 1,228 populated ZIP Code areas in Ohio are served by more than one school district — 802 of them, which puts the state 13th among the fifty-two. It is organized into 611 unified districts, the largest being Columbus City at 283,038 homes. Its most divided ZIP Code area, 44481, is split between 10 districts for elementary grades alone. The two districts that share the most ZIP Codes here are Columbus City and South-Western City, in 6 of them. Counted by homes rather than by ZIP Code area, 82% 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 sits well above the national rate: 65% of its ZIP Code areas cross a district line against 53% across the country. With 611 districts over 1,228 populated ZIP Code areas, every extra district is another line to cross.
- ZIP Code areas with a district1,228
- Served by more than one district802 (65%)
- Grade school and high school differ0 (0%)
- No high school district named0
- Unified districts611
- Elementary districts0
- Secondary districts0
- Homes in no district at all69
The largest districts in Ohio
Ranked by the homes inside their boundaries: Columbus City leads at 283,038, then Cleveland Municipal and Cincinnati City. Only districts with a page here are linked; 606 more exist in the state without one.
The most divided ZIP Code area in Ohio
ZIP Code area 44481 is the most divided in Ohio: 10 districts reach into its 4,804 homes, led for the early grades by Lordstown Local and Champion Local. No single name describes this postal code, and no lookup that gives one is telling the whole truth about it.
Each percentage here is a share of the 4,804 homes counted in ZIP Code 44481, 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 4,804 homes counted in ZIP Code 44481, so one cell is 137 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.
- Lordstown Local School District1,476 of 4,804 homes31%
- Champion Local School District1,254 of 4,804 homes26%
- LaBrae Local School District460 of 4,804 homes9.6%
- Newton Falls Exempted Village School District431 of 4,804 homes9.0%
- Weathersfield Local School District367 of 4,804 homes7.6%
- Lakeview Local School District346 of 4,804 homes7.2%
- Warren City School District298 of 4,804 homes6.2%
- Southington Local School District90 of 4,804 homes1.9%
- Jackson-Milton Local School District52 of 4,804 homes1.1%
- Bristol Local School District30 of 4,804 homes0.6%
For grade school, an answer of one district name would be wrong for 3,328 of the 4,804 here.
How much of Ohio a single district name misses
Across the 1,228 ZIP Code areas in Ohio with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 1,071,022 of the 5,242,513 homes they hold — 20% of the state. In 386 of those areas the single name is the whole truth; in the other 842 it is not.
ZIP Code 45011 · Hamilton, Ohio names 6 districts. Lakota Local is the largest of them for grade school, and an answer of its name alone misses 18,514 of the 27,178 homes there; Fairfield City, Hamilton City and New Miami Local hold the rest.
ZIP Code 43701 · Zanesville, Ohio names 6 districts. Zanesville City is the largest of them for grade school, and an answer of its name alone misses 13,346 of the 25,499 homes there; West Muskingum Local, Maysville Local and Franklin Local hold the rest.
In ZIP Code 44646 · Massillon, Ohio the largest district for grade school is Massillon City, and naming it alone misses 12,777 of the 21,072 homes counted there. The rest are with Perry Local and Jackson Local.
Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district
Of the 1,228 ZIP Code areas in Ohio that the federal file names a district for, 802 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 10 districts in one postal area: Lordstown, Mansfield and Springfield. 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 44481 · Lordstown, Ohio10 districts · 4,804 homes
- ZIP Code 44903 · Mansfield, Ohio8 districts · 11,348 homes
- ZIP Code 45502 · Springfield, Ohio8 districts · 7,087 homes
- ZIP Code 45601 · Chillicothe, Ohio8 districts · 23,339 homes
- ZIP Code 43068 · Reynoldsburg, Ohio7 districts · 23,412 homes
- ZIP Code 44266 · Ravenna, Ohio7 districts · 14,956 homes
- ZIP Code 44691 · Wooster, Ohio7 districts · 18,999 homes
- ZIP Code 45133 · Hillsboro, Ohio7 districts · 10,715 homes
- ZIP Code 45840 · Findlay, Ohio7 districts · 25,388 homes
- ZIP Code 45844 · Fort Jennings, Ohio7 districts · 1,271 homes
- ZIP Code 43044 · Mechanicsburg, Ohio6 districts · 2,164 homes
- ZIP Code 43050 · Mount Vernon, Ohio6 districts · 12,759 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: 802 of the 1,228 ZIP Code areas in Ohio 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.