San Francisco Unified School District

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

At 8,661 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. San Francisco Unified covers 47 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 boundary404,337
• Residents867,529
• ZIP Code areas it reaches30
• Where it is the only district25
• Where it shares with another district3
• Where it holds under half a percent2
• Land area47 square miles
• Homes per square mile8,661

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 94109 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 94920 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 94109 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94110 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94122 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94102 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94103 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94115 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94121 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94117 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94118 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94107 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94114 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94116 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94123 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94133 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94131 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94124 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94105 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94108 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94127 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94158 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94111 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94129 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94130 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94104 · San Francisco, California100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94188 · San Francisco, California1 of 1 home
• ZIP Code 94112 · San Francisco, California98% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94134 · San Francisco, California94% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94132 · San Francisco, California91% of the homes
• ZIP Code 94501 · Alameda, Californiano homes at all
• ZIP Code 94920 · Tiburon, Californiano homes at all

What an answer of one district name misses here

San Francisco Unified is the largest district in 28 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 2,291 of the 406,628 homes those areas hold — though in 25 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

ZIP Code 94132 · San Francisco, California is a two-district area: 10,668 of its 11,683 homes are inside San Francisco Unified, and the other 1,015 homes are with Jefferson Elementary. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 94134 · San Francisco, California the split runs 11,693 to 712 and the larger part is San Francisco Unified's: the rest is 712 homes with Bayshore Elementary.

San Francisco Unified holds 23,409 of the 23,973 homes in ZIP Code 94112 · San Francisco, California, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 564 homes with Jefferson Elementary and Brisbane Elementary.

In ZIP Code 94102 · San Francisco, California the single-name answer is the true one: San Francisco Unified holds all 22,348 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

ZIP Code 94103 · San Francisco, California is another area where one name covers everything — 19,927 homes, all of them inside San Francisco Unified.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

San Francisco Unified runs kindergarten 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 — Alameda City Unified, Tamalpais Union High and Reed Union Elementary. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Alameda City Unified School District27,773 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Tamalpais Union High School District5,908 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Reed Union Elementary School District5,801 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Jefferson Union High School District2,291 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Jefferson Elementary School District1,349 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Bayshore Elementary School District712 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

San Francisco Unified appears alongside a mix of district kinds — Jefferson Union High, Jefferson Elementary, Bayshore Elementary and Brisbane Elementary. A unified district runs every grade itself, so an address inside it belongs to no elementary or secondary district; where an elementary and a secondary district meet, one takes the lower grades and the other takes high school, and a household may be served by both.

• Jefferson Union High School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Jefferson Elementary School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Bayshore Elementary School District1 shared ZIP area
• Brisbane Elementary School District1 shared ZIP area

San Francisco Unified and Jefferson Union High school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 94112 · San Francisco, California
• ZIP Code 94132 · San Francisco, California
• ZIP Code 94134 · San Francisco, California

San Francisco Unified and Jefferson Elementary school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 94112 · San Francisco, California
• ZIP Code 94132 · San Francisco, California

San Francisco Unified and Bayshore Elementary school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 94134 · San Francisco, California

Have a street address?

A ZIP Code names every district that can serve the area; a street address settles which one serves a home. The Census Bureau geocoder takes an exact address and returns its school districts from the current boundary files, free and with no account.

Check an exact address with the Census Geocoder

Where this district sits

• School districts in California996 of 1,788 ZIP areas split
• The largest school districts in the United States#23 by homes
• How to find your school district numberNCES ID 0634410

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 3 of the 30 ZIP Code areas San Francisco 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.