Manchester School District
New Hampshire · runs pre-K through grade 12
NCES ID 3304590 · (603) 624-6300
Manchester is the only school district serving 4 of the 5 ZIP Code areas it touches, and shares the other 1 with neighbors. It covers 51,438 homes and 115,644 residents. By homes covered it ranks 1st of the 179 districts in New Hampshire. At 1,557 homes to the square mile it is one of the dense ones; district lines in that kind of territory follow streets rather than county roads.
Where this district is the answer, and where it is not
At 1,557 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Manchester covers 33 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 boundary51,438
- Residents115,644
- ZIP Code areas it reaches5
- Where it is the only district4
- Where it shares with another district1
- Where it holds under half a percent0
- Land area33 square miles
- Homes per square mile1,557
The ZIP Code areas it reaches
Its share is remarkably even across the 5 ZIP Code areas it reaches: from 100% of the homes in 03109 down to 92% of the homes in 03102, a spread of only a few points. That happens when district and postal boundaries were drawn around the same settlement.
- ZIP Code 03109 · Manchester, New Hampshire100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 03101 · Manchester, New Hampshire100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 03103 · Manchester, New Hampshire100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 03104 · Manchester, New Hampshire100% of the homes
- ZIP Code 03102 · Manchester, New Hampshire92% of the homes
What one name misses where high school is arranged elsewhere
Manchester is the largest district in 5 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 1,228 of the 52,666 homes those areas hold — though in 2 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.
ZIP Code 03102 · Manchester, New Hampshire is a two-district area: 13,764 of its 14,961 homes are inside Manchester, and the other 1,197 homes are with Goffstown. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.
Manchester holds 15,118 of the 15,148 homes in ZIP Code 03104 · Manchester, New Hampshire, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 30 homes in districts too small to name here.
In ZIP Code 03103 · Manchester, New Hampshire the split runs 15,781 to 1 and the larger part is Manchester's: the rest is 1 home in a district too small to name here.
In ZIP Code 03101 · Manchester, New Hampshire the single-name answer is the true one: Manchester holds all 2,436 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.
ZIP Code 03109 · Manchester, New Hampshire is another area where one name covers everything — 4,339 homes, all of them inside Manchester.
Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes
Manchester 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 — Goffstown. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.
- Goffstown School District1,197 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
Who it shares ZIP Codes with
One district shares ZIP Codes with Manchester: Goffstown, in 1 of them. For those areas a single-name lookup is choosing between exactly two answers, and it does not tell you it is choosing.
- Goffstown School District1 shared ZIP area
Manchester and Goffstown school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 03102 · Manchester, New Hampshire
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 1 of the 5 ZIP Code areas Manchester 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.