Waukee Community School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Waukee 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 boundary27,767
• Residents66,657
• ZIP Code areas it reaches9
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district5
• Where it holds under half a percent4
• Land area55 square miles
• Homes per square mile501

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 50263 this district holds 98% of the homes; in 50261 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 50263 · Waukee, Iowa98% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50323 · Urbandale, Iowa69% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50266 · West Des Moines, Iowa62% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50325 · Clive, Iowa37% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50063 · Dallas Center, Iowa0.6% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50003 · Adel, Iowa18 homes, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 50111 · Grimes, Iowa13 homes, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 50061 · West Des Moines, Iowa1 home, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 50261 · West Des Moines, Iowano homes at all

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Waukee Community is the largest district in 3 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 8,603 of the 33,653 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.

Waukee Community holds 11,020 of the 17,636 homes in ZIP Code 50266 · West Des Moines, Iowa, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 6,616 homes with West Des Moines Community.

In ZIP Code 50323 · Urbandale, Iowa the split runs 4,045 to 1,801 and the larger part is Waukee Community's: the rest is 1,800 homes with Urbandale Community and West Des Moines Community; 1 home in districts too small to name here.

Waukee Community reaches into ZIP Code 50325 · Clive, Iowa with 2,678 of its 7,273 homes, behind West Des Moines Community. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 2,678 homes.

Waukee Community is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 50063 · Dallas Center, Iowa — Dallas Center-Grimes Community leads it — and Waukee Community holds 7 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

Waukee 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 — West Des Moines Community, Dallas Center-Grimes Community and Adel-De Soto-Minburn Community. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• West Des Moines Community School District11,896 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
• Dallas Center-Grimes Community School District6,028 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Adel-De Soto-Minburn Community School District3,238 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Urbandale Community School District1,324 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Johnston Community School District1,314 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Van Meter Community School District1,258 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Waukee Community in the same ZIP Code areas: West Des Moines Community, Dallas Center-Grimes Community, Urbandale Community and Van Meter 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.

• West Des Moines Community School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Dallas Center-Grimes Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• Urbandale Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• Van Meter Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• Woodward-Granger Community School District1 shared ZIP area

Waukee Community and West Des Moines Community school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 50266 · West Des Moines, Iowa
• ZIP Code 50323 · Urbandale, Iowa
• ZIP Code 50325 · Clive, Iowa

Waukee Community and Dallas Center-Grimes Community school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 50063 · Dallas Center, Iowa

Waukee Community and Urbandale Community school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 50323 · Urbandale, 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 1930510

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 5 of the 9 ZIP Code areas Waukee 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.