ZIP Code 63701 · Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Cape Girardeau County · 17,161 counted · 3 districts
1,232 of the 17,161 homes here have no high school district named in the federal file.
Each percentage here is a share of the 17,161 homes counted in ZIP Code 63701, 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.
3 districts are named for the early grades in ZIP Code 63701, Cape Girardeau, Missouri 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. 17,161 homes were counted, and Cape Girardeau 63 School District holds the most of them. The largest share leaves 3,426 homes elsewhere: 3,389 homes with Jackson R-II and Nell Holcomb R-IV and 37 homes in a district too small to name here.
Three districts share the early grades
3 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 63701 at this level. Cape Girardeau 63 is the largest with 13,735 homes; the smallest of them holds 1,232 homes. Nell Holcomb R-IV is named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 17,161 homes counted in ZIP Code 63701, so one cell is 490 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.
- Cape Girardeau 63 School District13,735 of 17,161 homes80%
- Jackson R-II School District2,157 of 17,161 homes13%
- Nell Holcomb R-IV School District1,232 of 17,161 homes7.2%
Below half a percent at the grade school level: Delta R-V School District holds 37 homes, which is why it is counted under the list rather than inside it. A lookup that named it alongside the districts above would be listing a boundary crossing rather than an answer.
High school is split between two districts
2 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 63701 at this level. Cape Girardeau 63 is the largest with 13,735 homes; the smallest of them holds 2,157 homes.
- Cape Girardeau 63 School District13,735 of 17,161 homes80%
- Jackson R-II School District2,157 of 17,161 homes13%
1,232 of the 17,161 homes here have no high school district named in the federal file.
Below half a percent at the high school level: Delta R-V School District holds 37 homes, which is why it is counted under the list rather than inside it. A lookup that named it alongside the districts above would be listing a boundary crossing rather than an answer.
A district runs the early grades only
Nell Holcomb R-IV 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 63701
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 63701 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 17,161 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 3,426 homes and for high school it is wrong for 3,426 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 63701
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Jackson R-II touches 8 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 2,157 homes inside this one; Nell Holcomb R-IV touches 2 areas. Cape Girardeau 63 is the only district in at least one ZIP Code area somewhere in the country, while Nell Holcomb R-IV is never the only one anywhere: every postal area it touches, it shares.
- Cape Girardeau 63 School District13,735 of 17,161 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
- Jackson R-II School District2,157 of 17,161 here · 8 ZIP areas in all
- Nell Holcomb R-IV School District1,232 of 17,161 here · 2 ZIP areas in all
Where Cape Girardeau 63 goes from here
Cape Girardeau 63 School District runs pre-K through grade 12, and it is the only school district serving 1 of the 5 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 1 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 3. Inside its own boundary it holds 18,057 homes over 52 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 63701 is 13,735 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Nell Holcomb R-IV School District, across 1 ZIP Code area.
How 63701 compares in Missouri
Across Missouri the boundary file names more than one district in 749 of the 1,034 ZIP Code areas it names a district for, 72% of them, and 140 areas in the state have no high school district named for part of their homes. Counting the districts named at either level, 212 areas in Missouri name more than this ZIP Code does and 563 name fewer. Nationally more than one district is named in 53% of 33,555 areas.
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A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: 3,426 of the 17,161 homes counted in 63701 sit outside the district holding the most of them, and the line between the two runs along streets rather than around the postal area.
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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.
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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.