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ZIP Code 38002 · Lakeland, Tennessee

Shelby County · 15,419 counted · 6 districts

Grade schoolLakeland School System District33%5,024 of 15,419 homes
High schoolArlington Community School District32%4,885 of 15,419 homes

5,024 of the 15,419 homes here have no high school district named in the federal file.

Each percentage here is a share of the 15,419 homes counted in ZIP Code 38002, 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.

6 districts are named for the early grades in ZIP Code 38002, Lakeland, Tennessee and fewer for high school: at least one of them runs the early grades only, and the file stops naming it above them. Nothing new arrives, so nobody moves to a district that was not already here; the answer narrows instead. 15,419 homes were counted, and Lakeland School System District holds the most of them. No district here holds half the homes, so every single-name answer for this ZIP Code describes a minority of it. The area sits in Shelby County, Tennessee.

The early grades are divided many ways

6 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 38002 at this level. Lakeland School System is the largest with 5,024 homes; the smallest of them holds 98 homes. Lakeland School System is named here for grade school and not for high school.

Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 15,419 homes counted in ZIP Code 38002, so one cell is 441 homes, rounded to the nearest whole cell. Cells lit solid are the homes one district holds; the hatched cells at the end of a track are homes that no district of that kind is drawn to serve at all.

  • Lakeland School System District5,024 of 15,419 homes33%
  • Arlington Community School District4,885 of 15,419 homes32%
  • Bartlett City School District3,578 of 15,419 homes23%
  • Shelby County School District1,133 of 15,419 homes7.3%
  • Fayette County School District701 of 15,419 homes4.5%
  • Millington Municipal School District98 of 15,419 homes0.6%

High school is divided many ways

5 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 38002 at this level. Arlington Community is the largest with 4,885 homes; the smallest of them holds 98 homes.

  • Arlington Community School District4,885 of 15,419 homes32%
  • Bartlett City School District3,578 of 15,419 homes23%
  • Shelby County School District1,133 of 15,419 homes7.3%
  • Fayette County School District701 of 15,419 homes4.5%
  • Millington Municipal School District98 of 15,419 homes0.6%

5,024 of the 15,419 homes here have no high school district named in the federal file.

A district runs the early grades only

Lakeland School System runs the early grades here and is not named for high school. Nobody moves to a district that was not already in the elementary answer: the list of names gets shorter, and the homes under the district that stops are picked up by one of the others or by no secondary district at all.

What one district name costs in 38002

A lookup that answers ZIP Code 38002 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 15,419 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 10,395 homes and for high school it is wrong for 10,534 homes. That is the whole difference between this page and a one-line answer: the same federal file, read to the end instead of to the first row.

The districts that reach into 38002

The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Shelby County touches 40 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 1,133 homes inside this one; Lakeland School System touches 2 areas. Bartlett City is the only district in at least one ZIP Code area somewhere in the country, while Lakeland School System is never the only one anywhere: every postal area it touches, it shares. 2 of them have a page here listing every ZIP Code area it reaches.

Where Lakeland School System goes from here

Lakeland School System District runs pre-K through grade 8, and it is the only school district serving 0 of the 2 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 1 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 1. Inside its own boundary it holds 5,024 homes over 24 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 38002 is 5,024 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Shelby County School District, across 1 ZIP Code area.

How 38002 compares in Tennessee

Across Tennessee the boundary file names more than one district in 331 of the 631 ZIP Code areas it names a district for, 52% of them, and 1 area in the state has no high school district named for part of their homes. Counting the districts named at either level, 2 areas in Tennessee name more than this ZIP Code does and 627 name fewer. Nationally more than one district is named in 53% of 33,555 areas.

Look up 38002 again, or look up another ZIP Code

The lookup holds every ZIP Code area in the country with homes in it, including the ones with no page of their own. Opening it at 38002 recomputes the same 15,419 homes from the same snapshot, and typing five other digits answers for somewhere else. Nothing here is fetched from anywhere while you read: the whole index travels with the lookup page itself.

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: 10,395 of the 15,419 homes counted in 38002 sit outside the district holding the most of them, and the line between the two runs along streets rather than around the postal area.

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.

What this site can hand you instead:

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.