Southeast Polk Community School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Southeast Polk Community, grouped by the ZIP Code area each block falls in. The Census Bureau publishes the blocks; the grouping is computed here, and it is the only place these particular numbers exist.

• Homes inside the boundary15,953
• Residents40,440
• ZIP Code areas it reaches8
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district6
• Where it holds under half a percent2
• Land area113 square miles
• Homes per square mile142

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 50009 this district holds 98% of the homes; in 50047 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 50009 · Altoona, Iowa98% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50237 · Runnells, Iowa96% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50169 · Mitchellville, Iowa81% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50327 · Pleasant Hill, Iowa70% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50317 · Des Moines, Iowa13% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50228 · Prairie City, Iowa0.9% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50035 · Bondurant, Iowa3 homes, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 50047 · Carlisle, Iowano homes at all

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Southeast Polk Community is the largest district in 4 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 1,860 of the 15,707 homes those areas hold. That count is computed here from census blocks; the lookups that answer this question with a single name never print it.

ZIP Code 50327 · Pleasant Hill, Iowa is a two-district area: 3,347 of its 4,771 homes are inside Southeast Polk Community, and the other 1,424 homes are with Des Moines Independent Community. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

Southeast Polk Community is one of 4 districts the file names for ZIP Code 50169 · Mitchellville, Iowa at that level. It holds 886 of the 1,097 homes there; the rest is 211 homes with Colfax-Mingo Community, Bondurant-Farrar Community and PCM Community. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 211 of the homes in it.

In ZIP Code 50009 · Altoona, Iowa the split runs 8,452 to 179 and the larger part is Southeast Polk Community's: the rest is 179 homes with Bondurant-Farrar Community.

Southeast Polk Community reaches into ZIP Code 50317 · Des Moines, Iowa with 2,094 of its 15,571 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Des Moines Independent Community leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 2,094 homes.

Southeast Polk Community is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 50228 · Prairie City, Iowa — PCM Community leads it — and Southeast Polk Community holds 9 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

Southeast Polk Community 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 — Des Moines Independent Community, Bondurant-Farrar Community and Carlisle Community. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Des Moines Independent Community School District14,073 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Bondurant-Farrar Community School District3,139 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Carlisle Community School District2,331 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• PCM Community School District1,049 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Saydel Community School District813 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Colfax-Mingo Community School District119 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Southeast Polk Community in the same ZIP Code areas: PCM Community, Colfax-Mingo Community, Bondurant-Farrar Community and Des Moines Independent Community. A single-name lookup for one of those areas has to choose between them, and the choice is right for some addresses and wrong for others.

• PCM Community School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Colfax-Mingo Community School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Bondurant-Farrar Community School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Des Moines Independent Community School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Saydel Community School District1 shared ZIP area

Southeast Polk Community and PCM Community school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 50169 · Mitchellville, Iowa
• ZIP Code 50228 · Prairie City, Iowa
• ZIP Code 50237 · Runnells, Iowa

Southeast Polk Community and Colfax-Mingo Community school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 50169 · Mitchellville, Iowa
• ZIP Code 50228 · Prairie City, Iowa

Southeast Polk Community and Bondurant-Farrar Community school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 50009 · Altoona, Iowa
• ZIP Code 50169 · Mitchellville, Iowa

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.

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Where this district sits

• School districts in Iowa678 of 969 ZIP areas split
• How to find your school district numberNCES ID 1926820

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 6 of the 8 ZIP Code areas Southeast Polk Community 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.