Sorting A Large Tab Into Smaller Tabs

Hello! I posted here once before and you guys were so incredibly helpful- quite literally saved me 100 hours of work.

So for my work I have this excel spreadsheet with every teacher in the state of Minnesota. It's already been sorted down to those that teach subjects relevant to what my organization does- and I spent about a week sorting all of the high school teachers my region. I'm now trying to do the same thing with all of the Middle School teachers, but it's 60,000 entries and that's just an insane number of teachers to sort manually.

The nuts and bolts: I have a tab with every Middle School teacher we need, and six tabs for each region of the state. Each teacher has the district they teach in, and I have a list that shows which region each district is. So what I've been doing is sorting by district (so that it's at least in groups), and then selecting all of the teachers in a given district, checking the list, and putting them in the corresponding region tab. It takes less time then doing it one by one, but surely there's a quicker way to do this. Each region has about 50 districts, and there's a total of 336 districts in Minnesota. So it's not like I can just quickly sort them by region, there's far too many.

Is there some sort of command or formula that can speed up this process?

Thanks again for your help last time, hopefully you can help me again.

Alright, thank you! I know it's been a minute but hopefully this post still gets some visibility. I've attached a sample workbook with approximately the same foramtting as the spreadsheet I'm looking at.

A lot of the information here is irrelevant; What's important is the District Name and Number, this is what each row is being sorted by. I'm trying to get each entry into a different tab, shown at the bottom as 3 different regions. In reality there's 6.

I do have a list of which district is in which region, but not in excel format and obviously it would be difficult to move it over given how many school districts we're talking about here (hundreds).

What I'm doing now is simply sorting by District Number, highlighting each teacher in a given district (for example, on this spreadsheet the first four are all in "Central Area District" which would be in the Central Region) and moving them to the proper tab.

I'm hoping to find a way to take all 60k+ entries and automatically sort them into different tabs, but I have no idea how I can do that, especially given that right now the list of districts in each region is in a Google Document, not anything that can easily put into a code.

If there's nothing to do, that's fine. But I'm supposed to work through this by the end of the Month, and I have other projects I'm working on. If there's a way to cut down on the hours it would take that be fantastic!

Are all the district names indicative of what region they belong to? E.g. do all Metro regions have the word "Metro" in the district name? There needs to be a way to tie district to region in order to know which region tab a given set of district rows needs to be copied to.

Yes, the regions are fixed. No, there is no way to know simply by looking at the district name what region they would be in- I only included the words "metropolitan" to make the example for clear.

In reality, you really just need to take each district, look for it on the document, and see which region it's marked as.

I've attached the document below. It's all public knowledge- this isn't anything critical, it's just where each school district in Minnesota is. (EDIT: Each region is separated into two columns, this is simply for making it easier to read, it doesn't mean anything. The six big cells are all that matter, NW NE SW SE Central and Metro.)

If there is a way to turn this into an excel sheet and somehow use that to automatically sort each teacher, that would be fantastic. But if it is possible, I will probably need the formulas explained very simply.

Thank you all so much for the help, I'm hoping to finish this this weekend.

Wow, this is actually really cool! Will make things quicker for sure, I don't think it can be done automatically so this will make it more efficient and less mind numbing to go through it all. Thank you!