Paradise Valley Unified District
Arizona · runs pre-K through grade 12
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.
- Scottsdale Unified District42,909 homes in 6 shared ZIP Code areas
- Glendale Union High School District40,304 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
- Washington Elementary District40,304 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
- Deer Valley Unified District34,106 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
- Phoenix Union High School District15,980 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
- Cave Creek Unified District9,351 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
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
Where this district sits
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: 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.
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.