Columbia Falls Elementary School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

Fewer than three homes to the square mile: Columbia Falls Elementary covers 2,621 square miles of mostly open country. A district this thin holds a small share of any ZIP Code it touches, however much ground it covers, which is exactly why share by land area would mislead here and share by homes does not.

• Homes inside the boundary7,558
• Residents15,761
• ZIP Code areas it reaches10
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district7
• Where it holds under half a percent3
• Land area2,621 square miles
• Homes per square mile3

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 59919 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 59916 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 59919 · Hungry Horse, Montana100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 59928 · Polebridge, Montana100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 59926 · Martin City, Montana100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 59913 · Coram, Montana88% of the homes
• ZIP Code 59912 · Columbia Falls, Montana87% of the homes
• ZIP Code 59936 · West Glacier, Montana2.9% of the homes
• ZIP Code 59901 · Kalispell, Montana0.7% of the homes
• ZIP Code 59937 · Whitefish, Montana13 homes, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 59911 · Bigfork, Montanano homes at all
• ZIP Code 59916 · Snowslip, Montanano homes at all

What one name misses, and what changes later

Columbia Falls Elementary is the largest district in 5 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the grade school answer misses 951 of the 8,314 homes those areas hold — though in 3 of them it holds every home there is for grade school. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Columbia Falls Elementary is one of 7 grade school districts the file names for ZIP Code 59912 · Columbia Falls, Montana. It holds 5,917 of the 6,820 homes there; the rest is 903 homes with Deer Park Elementary, Whitefish Elementary, Fair-Mont-Egan Elementary and one more district. For high school the area is named for Columbia Falls High (5,917 homes), Flathead High (627 homes) and Whitefish High (276 homes).

ZIP Code 59913 · Coram, Montana is a two-district area for grade school: 336 of its 384 homes are inside Columbia Falls Elementary, and the other 48 homes are with West Glacier Elementary. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

Columbia Falls Elementary holds all 481 homes counted for grade school in ZIP Code 59919 · Hungry Horse, Montana, and no other grade school district holds a share worth naming. For high school the same homes are named for Columbia Falls High (481 homes), so a single name answers only one of the two questions there.

ZIP Code 59926 · Martin City, Montana is another area where Columbia Falls Elementary holds every home counted for grade school — 247 homes — and for high school the same homes are named for Columbia Falls High (247 homes).

Columbia Falls Elementary holds 171 of the 24,589 homes for grade school in ZIP Code 59901 · Kalispell, Montana, behind Kalispell Elementary at that level. For high school the area is named for Flathead High (23,986 homes), Bigfork High (219 homes), Whitefish High (213 homes) and Columbia Falls High (171 homes).

ZIP Code 59936 · West Glacier, Montana is another area where Columbia Falls Elementary holds 11 of its 377 homes for grade school, behind West Glacier Elementary. For high school the area is named for Columbia Falls High (377 homes).

Most of it goes on to a single high school district

Most of the territory Columbia Falls Elementary covers — 87% of it by homes — goes on to Columbia Falls High for high school, with Flathead High taking the remainder. The elementary boundary and the high school boundary were drawn by different bodies and do not have to agree.

• Columbia Falls High School District87% of Columbia Falls Elementary's homes go here
• Flathead High School District9.4% of Columbia Falls Elementary's homes go here
• Whitefish High School District3.4% of Columbia Falls Elementary's homes go here
• Bigfork High School Districtunder 0.1% of Columbia Falls Elementary's homes go 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

Columbia Falls Elementary shares ZIP Code areas with 20 different districts. The most frequent are Columbia Falls High, West Glacier Elementary, Cayuse Prairie Elementary and Fair-Mont-Egan Elementary. 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.

• Columbia Falls High School District7 shared ZIP areas
• West Glacier Elementary School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Cayuse Prairie Elementary School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Fair-Mont-Egan Elementary School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Flathead High School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Whitefish Elementary School District2 shared ZIP areas

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

• ZIP Code 59901 · Kalispell, Montana
• ZIP Code 59912 · Columbia Falls, Montana
• ZIP Code 59913 · Coram, Montana
• ZIP Code 59919 · Hungry Horse, Montana
• ZIP Code 59926 · Martin City, Montana
• ZIP Code 59928 · Polebridge, Montana
• ZIP Code 59936 · West Glacier, Montana

Columbia Falls Elementary and West Glacier Elementary school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 59913 · Coram, Montana
• ZIP Code 59936 · West Glacier, Montana

Columbia Falls Elementary and Cayuse Prairie Elementary school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

• ZIP Code 59901 · Kalispell, Montana
• ZIP Code 59912 · Columbia Falls, Montana

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 Montana313 of 368 ZIP areas split
• How to find your school district numberNCES ID 3007110

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 7 of the 10 ZIP Code areas Columbia Falls Elementary 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.