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Billings High School District

Montana · runs grade 9 through grade 12

NCES ID 3003900 · billingsschools.org · (406) 281-5119

There is no ZIP Code area where Billings High is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 6 of them and shares every one, with 19 different districts in total. A lookup that returns a single district name for any of those ZIP Codes is guessing which side of a line an address falls on.

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

No district in Montana covers more homes. That size is what makes the counts below unusual: Billings High reaches 8 ZIP Code areas, and in none of them is it the only district with a real share.

  • Homes inside the boundary59,155
  • Residents133,836
  • 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 area690 square miles
  • Homes per square mile86

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 59102 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 59002 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.

What one name misses, and what changes later

Billings High is the largest district in 5 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the high school answer misses 4,186 of the 63,302 homes those areas hold — though in 1 of them it holds every home there is for high school. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Billings High holds 15,411 of the 18,725 homes in ZIP Code 59101 · Lockwood, Montana, so its name is the right high school answer for most of the area and the wrong one for the rest: 3,266 homes with Lockwood K-12 and 48 homes in districts too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 59105 · Billings, Montana the split runs 13,056 to 640 and the larger part is Billings High's: the rest is 640 homes with Shepherd High.

Billings High is one of 6 high school districts the file names for ZIP Code 59057 · Stillwater County, Montana. It holds 165 of the 289 homes there; the rest is 124 homes with Rapelje High, Broadview High, Park City High and one more district. For grade school the area is named for Elder Grove Elementary (165 homes), Rapelje Elementary (56 homes), Broadview High (41 homes) and 2 more districts.

Billings High holds all 22,262 homes counted for high school in ZIP Code 59102 · Billings, Montana, and no other high school district holds a share worth naming. For grade school the same homes are named for Billings Elementary (22,159 homes) and 103 homes in a district under half a percent, so a single name answers only one of the two questions there.

Billings High holds 36 of the 5,001 homes for high school in ZIP Code 59044 · Laurel, Montana, behind Laurel High at that level. For grade school the area is named for Laurel Elementary (4,965 homes) and Canyon Creek Elementary (36 homes).

The elementary districts that feed it

Students arrive at Billings High from 6 districts that run the lower grades in the same ZIP Code areas — Billings Elementary, which sends 88%, Elder Grove Elementary, which sends 3.1% and Elysian Elementary, which sends 2.8%. An address on that ground belongs to two districts at once, one for grade school and this one for high school, and neither name is the whole answer.

  • Billings Elementary School District88% of Billings High's homes come from here
  • Elder Grove Elementary School District3.1% of Billings High's homes come from here
  • Elysian Elementary School District2.8% of Billings High's homes come from here
  • Independent Elementary School District1.7% of Billings High's homes come from here
  • Blue Creek Elementary School District1.6% of Billings High's homes come from here
  • Canyon Creek Elementary School District1.3% of Billings High's homes come from here

This list is an estimate, names as well as percentages. The snapshot behind this site keeps the homes each district holds in each ZIP Code area, not the pair of districts on each census block, so a district is listed here when it runs the other band in a ZIP Code area this one shares, and each percentage spreads that area's homes across those districts in proportion to the share each holds there. Unified districts are left out: a block in a unified district belongs to no elementary or secondary district. Read the percentages as the size of the crossing, not as a count of houses.

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Billings High shares ZIP Code areas with 19 different districts. The most frequent are Billings Elementary, Canyon Creek Elementary, Laurel Elementary and Laurel High. 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.

  • Billings Elementary School District4 shared ZIP areas
  • Canyon Creek Elementary School District3 shared ZIP areas
  • Laurel Elementary School District3 shared ZIP areas
  • Laurel High School District3 shared ZIP areas
  • Elder Grove Elementary School District2 shared ZIP areas
  • Elysian Elementary School District2 shared ZIP areas

Billings High and Billings Elementary school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 59101 · Lockwood, Montana
  • ZIP Code 59102 · Billings, Montana
  • ZIP Code 59105 · Billings, Montana
  • ZIP Code 59106 · Billings, Montana

Billings High and Canyon Creek Elementary school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 59044 · Laurel, Montana
  • ZIP Code 59101 · Lockwood, Montana
  • ZIP Code 59106 · Billings, Montana

Billings High and Laurel Elementary school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 59044 · Laurel, Montana
  • ZIP Code 59057 · Stillwater County, Montana
  • ZIP Code 59106 · Billings, Montana

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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 Billings High 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.