Bismarck Public School District 1

Where this district is the answer, and where it is not

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Bismarck Public School District 1, 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 boundary41,020
• Residents94,748
• ZIP Code areas it reaches6
• Where it is the only district3
• Where it shares with another district3
• Where it holds under half a percent0
• Land area215 square miles
• Homes per square mile191

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

It is the only district serving 3 of them and shares the other 3. It holds 1 of 1 home in 58505 and 39% of the homes in 58521; each entry below says how much of that area's homes it holds, and the rest belong to somebody else.

• ZIP Code 58505 · Bismarck, North Dakota1 of 1 home
• ZIP Code 58503 · Bismarck, North Dakota100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 58501 · Bismarck, North Dakota100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 58504 · Bismarck, North Dakota97% of the homes
• ZIP Code 58558 · Menoken, North Dakota41% of the homes
• ZIP Code 58521 · Glenview, North Dakota39% of the homes

What one name misses where high school is arranged elsewhere

Bismarck Public School District 1 is the largest district in 4 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 395 of the 41,145 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.

Bismarck Public School District 1 holds 11,980 of the 12,302 homes in ZIP Code 58504 · Bismarck, North Dakota, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 293 homes with Apple Creek Public School District 39 and Manning Public School District 45 and 29 homes in a district too small to name here.

ZIP Code 58501 · Bismarck, North Dakota is a two-district area: 13,614 of its 13,653 homes are inside Bismarck Public School District 1, and the other 39 homes are in a district too small to name here. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 58503 · Bismarck, North Dakota the split runs 15,155 to 34 and the larger part is Bismarck Public School District 1's: the rest is 34 homes in a district too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 58505 · Bismarck, North Dakota the single-name answer is the true one: Bismarck Public School District 1 holds all 1 home counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

In ZIP Code 58558 · Menoken, North Dakota this district is one name among 5. Menoken Public School District 33 leads with the largest share and Bismarck Public School District 1 holds 155 of the 381 homes counted there; no single name describes that area at all.

ZIP Code 58521 · Glenview, North Dakota repeats the pattern with 4 names holding a real share: 115 of its 296 homes are Bismarck Public School District 1's, and the other 181 are not.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Bismarck Public School District 1 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 — Apple Creek Public School District 39, Menoken Public School District 33 and Wilton Public School District 1. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Apple Creek Public School District 39291 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Menoken Public School District 33156 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Wilton Public School District 1153 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Manning Public School District 4563 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Wing Public School District 2822 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Naughton Public School District 2515 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Bismarck Public School District 1 shares ZIP Code areas with 6 different districts. The most frequent are Naughton Public School District 25, Apple Creek Public School District 39, Wing Public School District 28 and Manning Public School District 45. 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.

• Naughton Public School District 252 shared ZIP areas
• Apple Creek Public School District 392 shared ZIP areas
• Wing Public School District 282 shared ZIP areas
• Manning Public School District 451 shared ZIP area
• Menoken Public School District 331 shared ZIP area
• Wilton Public School District 11 shared ZIP area

Where this district sits

• School districts in North Dakota290 of 386 ZIP areas split
• Every district with a page here260 districts listed

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 3 of the 6 ZIP Code areas Bismarck Public School District 1 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.