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Billings High School District

Montana · runs grade 9 through grade 12

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 0 of them it is 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 answer misses 4,186 of the 63,302 homes those areas hold — though in 1 of them it holds every home there is. 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 right for most of the area and wrong 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 districts the file names for ZIP Code 59057 · Stillwater County, Montana at that level. It holds 165 of the 289 homes there; the rest is 124 homes with Rapelje High, Broadview High, Park City High and 1 more district. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 124 of the homes in it.

In ZIP Code 59102 · Billings, Montana the single-name answer is the true one: Billings High holds all 22,262 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

Billings High is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 59044 · Laurel, Montana — Laurel Elementary leads it — and Billings High holds 36 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

The elementary districts that feed it

Students arrive at Billings High from 6 districts that run the lower grades on the same ground — Billings Elementary, which sends 84%, Lockwood K-12, which sends 4.6% and Elder Grove Elementary, which sends 3.1%. Each of those addresses therefore 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 District84% of Billings High's homes come from here
  • Lockwood K-124.6% 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 District2.4% 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 District1.3% of Billings High's homes come from here

The names in this list are exact: the federal file gives the district of each band for every census block. The percentages are not. They spread each shared ZIP Code area's homes across the other band in proportion to the share each district holds there, because the file names the two districts of a block and not how a household moves between them. Read them 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

Where this district sits

What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address. A district settles that question on its own site: look for a school locator, a find my school tool, or an attendance zone map. Where there is none, ask the office itself.

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.

This site links to no district website. None of the federal files it is built from publishes one, and a guessed address is worse than none. It is the district office, not a search engine, that settles an address.

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.

What this cannot tell you

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file. Nothing on this page adjusts one to the other. Where houses have been built or cleared since the count, a share here describes the place as it was counted rather than as it stands today, and in the fastest-growing ZIP Code areas that gap is the largest single source of error on this site.

A share on this page is a share of the homes in the ZIP Code area, not a probability for any particular address. Enrollment is decided by street address, and a district may run magnet, charter or choice programs that ignore the boundary entirely. If a decision depends on the answer, the district office is the only authority; this page shows what the federal boundary files say and when they were published.

A district boundary is not a school attendance zone. This site never says which school an address is assigned to: no current national dataset of attendance zones exists, and the district draws them itself. Nor is anything here endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau; we use their published files, and that is the whole of the relationship.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not an area. What is mapped here is the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Area, the closest published approximation to it. The two are not identical, and a handful of ZIP Codes used only for post office boxes or single buildings have no tabulation area at all.

Where these numbers come from

School district boundaries come from the Census Bureau's Census Geographic Relationship File, current 2026 vintage, which assigns every census block to a unified district or to an elementary and a secondary district. Homes and residents in each block come from the 2020 Census Redistricting Data (PL 94-171), H1_001 and P1_001. The ZIP Code areas come from the same Geographic Relationship File, block to ZIP Code Tabulation Area. District names and grade ranges come from the Census Gazetteer 2025, with 2020 for districts no longer listed.

The place name printed beside a ZIP Code comes from the Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Area relationship files: place, county subdivision and county, taken 2026-09-06. It is a label rather than a measurement: the Census Bureau does not publish which post office a ZIP Code belongs to, so the place named is the one covering the most land inside the area, not the city the Postal Service prints on an envelope.

Everything else on this page — the shares, the counts of districts per ZIP, the comparison between the two grade bands, the rankings — is computed here from those files. The source publishes none of it. Snapshot taken 2026-09-03.