Brookline School District
Massachusetts · runs pre-K through grade 12
NCES ID 2503150 · brookline.k12.ma.us · (617) 730-2403
Brookline is the only school district serving 1 of the 4 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 2 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 1. It covers 27,961 homes and 63,191 residents. By homes covered it ranks 17th of the 305 districts in Massachusetts.
Where this district is the answer, and where it is not
At 4,137 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Brookline covers 7 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 boundary27,961
- Residents63,191
- ZIP Code areas it reaches4
- Where it is the only district1
- Where it shares with another district2
- Where it holds under half a percent1
- Land area7 square miles
- Homes per square mile4,137
The ZIP Code areas it reaches
The spread is the thing to notice. In 02446 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 02215 it holds 6 homes, under half a percent. 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 02446 · Brookline, Massachusetts100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 02445 · Brookline, Massachusetts99% of the homes
- ZIP Code 02467 · Brookline, Massachusetts46% of the homes
- ZIP Code 02215 · Boston, Massachusetts6 homes, under half a percent
The areas it leads without holding most of the homes
Brookline 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 3,974 of the 31,929 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.
Brookline is the largest name in ZIP Code 02467 · Brookline, Massachusetts and still holds a minority of it: 3,370 of 7,260 homes. The other 3,890 homes are with Newton and Boston. 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 02445 · Brookline, Massachusetts is a two-district area: 9,506 of its 9,576 homes are inside Brookline, and the other 70 homes are with Boston. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.
In ZIP Code 02446 · Brookline, Massachusetts the split runs 15,079 to 14 and the larger part is Brookline's: the rest is 14 homes in a district too small to name here.
Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes
Brookline 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 — Boston and Newton. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.
- Boston School District11,435 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
- Newton School District2,766 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
Who it shares ZIP Codes with
These districts appear alongside Brookline in the same ZIP Code areas: Boston and Newton. 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.
- Boston School District2 shared ZIP areas
- Newton School District1 shared ZIP area
Brookline and Boston school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 02445 · Brookline, Massachusetts
- ZIP Code 02467 · Brookline, Massachusetts
Brookline and Newton school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 02467 · Brookline, Massachusetts
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.
Where this district sits
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 2 of the 4 ZIP Code areas Brookline 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.