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Paradise Valley Unified District

Arizona · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 0405930 · pvschools.net · (602) 449-2000

Paradise Valley Unified is the only school district serving 2 of the 16 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 10 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 4. It covers 123,283 homes and 267,352 residents. By homes covered it ranks 7th of the 214 districts in Arizona.

Where this district is the answer, and where it is not

At 1,260 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Paradise Valley Unified covers 98 square miles in all — small enough that a single ZIP Code area can hold most of it, and several ZIP Codes can cut across it.

  • Homes inside the boundary123,283
  • Residents267,352
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches16
  • Where it is the only district2
  • Where it shares with another district10
  • Where it holds under half a percent4
  • Land area98 square miles
  • Homes per square mile1,260

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 85050 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 85266 it holds no homes at all. Same district, opposite answers, and a lookup that names it without the share tells the second household the same thing as the first.

  • ZIP Code 85050 · Phoenix, Arizona100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85054 · Phoenix, Arizona100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85032 · Phoenix, Arizona98% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85024 · Phoenix, Arizona90% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85022 · Phoenix, Arizona86% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85254 · Phoenix, Arizona84% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85028 · Phoenix, Arizona75% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85255 · Scottsdale, Arizona48% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85020 · Phoenix, Arizona13% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85260 · Scottsdale, Arizona13% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85023 · Phoenix, Arizona9.0% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85027 · Phoenix, Arizona6.7% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 85018 · Phoenix, Arizonano homes at all
  • ZIP Code 85029 · Phoenix, Arizonano homes at all
  • ZIP Code 85085 · Phoenix, Arizonano homes at all
  • ZIP Code 85266 · Scottsdale, Arizonano homes at all

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Paradise Valley Unified is the largest district in 8 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 22,876 of the 138,464 homes those areas hold — though in 2 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Paradise Valley Unified is the largest name in ZIP Code 85255 · Scottsdale, Arizona and still holds a minority of it: 11,263 of 23,253 homes. The other 11,990 homes are with Scottsdale Unified and Cave Creek Unified. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

ZIP Code 85022 · Phoenix, Arizona is a two-district area: 20,868 of its 24,358 homes are inside Paradise Valley Unified, and the other 3,490 homes are with Washington Elementary. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 85254 · Phoenix, Arizona the split runs 18,048 to 3,360 and the larger part is Paradise Valley Unified's: the rest is 3,360 homes with Scottsdale Unified.

In ZIP Code 85050 · Phoenix, Arizona the single-name answer is the true one: Paradise Valley Unified holds all 13,109 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

ZIP Code 85054 · Phoenix, Arizona is another area where one name covers everything — 6,223 homes, all of them inside Paradise Valley Unified.

Paradise Valley Unified reaches into ZIP Code 85260 · Scottsdale, Arizona with 2,739 of its 20,455 homes, behind Scottsdale Unified. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 2,739 homes.

In ZIP Code 85020 · Phoenix, Arizona this district is one name among 5. Glendale Union High leads with the largest share and Paradise Valley Unified holds 2,425 of the 18,034 homes counted there; no single name describes that area at all.

Paradise Valley Unified is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 85023 · Phoenix, Arizona — Glendale Union High leads it — and Paradise Valley Unified holds 1,352 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Paradise Valley Unified runs pre-K through grade 12 itself, so an address it holds sees no change of authority between grade school and high school. The districts listed below are the ones that take the other homes in the ZIP Code areas it shares — Scottsdale Unified, Glendale Union High and Washington Elementary. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Paradise Valley Unified shares ZIP Code areas with 7 different districts. The most frequent are Scottsdale Unified, Glendale Union High, Deer Valley Unified and Washington Elementary. In a neighborhood this crowded the question is not which district serves the ZIP Code but which side of which street an address is on.

  • Scottsdale Unified District5 shared ZIP areas
  • Glendale Union High School District3 shared ZIP areas
  • Deer Valley Unified District3 shared ZIP areas
  • Washington Elementary District3 shared ZIP areas
  • Cave Creek Unified District1 shared ZIP area
  • Madison Elementary District1 shared ZIP area

Paradise Valley Unified and Scottsdale Unified school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 85028 · Phoenix, Arizona
  • ZIP Code 85032 · Phoenix, Arizona
  • ZIP Code 85254 · Phoenix, Arizona
  • ZIP Code 85255 · Scottsdale, Arizona
  • ZIP Code 85260 · Scottsdale, Arizona

Paradise Valley Unified and Glendale Union High school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 85020 · Phoenix, Arizona
  • ZIP Code 85022 · Phoenix, Arizona
  • ZIP Code 85023 · Phoenix, Arizona

Paradise Valley Unified and Deer Valley Unified school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 85023 · Phoenix, Arizona
  • ZIP Code 85024 · Phoenix, Arizona
  • ZIP Code 85027 · Phoenix, Arizona

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What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address: look on its site for a school locator, a find my school tool or an attendance zone map, or call the office.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: in 10 of the 16 ZIP Code areas Paradise Valley Unified reaches, at least one other district holds a real share of the homes as well, and the line between them runs along streets. Only the district can say which side of that line an address is on.

District websites and phone numbers here come from the NCES Common Core of Data directory, 2024-25 school year, filed under the same district ID as the Census boundary files. Where it lists no usable website, none is printed rather than guessed.

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.

Where these numbers come from

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file, so a fast-growing area may have changed since; ZIP Codes here are the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; a share is a share of homes, not the chance that one address is in a district; and a district is not a school attendance zone. Every source, file and caveat is on the method page.