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Grants-Cibola County Schools

New Mexico · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 3501170 · gccs.k12.nm.us · (505) 285-2603

Grants-Cibola County Schools is the only school district serving 11 of the 16 ZIP Code areas it touches, and shares the other 5 with neighbors. It covers 10,892 homes and 26,883 residents. By homes covered it ranks 19th of the 89 districts in New Mexico. It averages fewer than five homes to the square mile, so its share of any ZIP Code is small even where its territory is large.

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

Fewer than three homes to the square mile: Grants-Cibola County Schools covers 3,792 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 boundary10,892
  • Residents26,883
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches16
  • Where it is the only district11
  • Where it shares with another district5
  • Where it holds under half a percent0
  • Land area3,792 square miles
  • Homes per square mile3

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 87034 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 87315 it holds 4.8% of the homes. 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 87034 · Skyline-Ganipa, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87021 · Milan, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87357 · Pinehill, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87051 · San Rafael, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87007 · Seama, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87005 · Bluewater Village, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87014 · Cubero, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87040 · Paguate, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87038 · Laguna, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87049 · San Fidel, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87020 · Grants, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87321 · Ramah, New Mexico69% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87026 · Mesita, New Mexico43% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87323 · Thoreau, New Mexico21% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87045 · Prewitt, New Mexico8.4% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87315 · Fence Lake, New Mexico4.8% of the homes

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Grants-Cibola County Schools is the largest district in 13 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 1,099 of the 11,579 homes those areas hold — though in 10 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Grants-Cibola County Schools is the largest name in ZIP Code 87026 · Mesita, New Mexico and still holds a minority of it: 581 of 1,353 homes. The other 772 homes are with Albuquerque and Los Lunas. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

Grants-Cibola County Schools holds 712 of the 1,025 homes in ZIP Code 87321 · Ramah, New Mexico, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 312 homes with Gallup-McKinley County Schools and 1 home in a district too small to name here.

ZIP Code 87020 · Grants, New Mexico is a two-district area: 4,760 of its 4,774 homes are inside Grants-Cibola County Schools, and the other 14 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 87005 · Bluewater Village, New Mexico the single-name answer is the true one: Grants-Cibola County Schools holds all 302 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

ZIP Code 87007 · Seama, New Mexico is another area where one name covers everything — 399 homes, all of them inside Grants-Cibola County Schools.

Grants-Cibola County Schools reaches into ZIP Code 87323 · Thoreau, New Mexico with 338 of its 1,580 homes, behind Gallup-McKinley County Schools. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 338 homes.

Grants-Cibola County Schools is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 87045 · Prewitt, New Mexico — Gallup-McKinley County Schools leads it — and Grants-Cibola County Schools holds 66 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 87315 · Fence Lake, New Mexico is another area where Grants-Cibola County Schools is present without being the answer: 8 of its 168 homes, behind Quemado Independent Schools.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Grants-Cibola County Schools 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 — Gallup-McKinley County Schools, Albuquerque and Los Lunas. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Grants-Cibola County Schools in the same ZIP Code areas: Gallup-McKinley County Schools, Albuquerque, Los Lunas and Quemado Independent Schools. A single-name lookup for one of those areas has to choose between them, and the choice is right for some addresses and wrong for others.

Grants-Cibola County Schools and Gallup-McKinley County Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 87045 · Prewitt, New Mexico
  • ZIP Code 87321 · Ramah, New Mexico
  • ZIP Code 87323 · Thoreau, New Mexico

Grants-Cibola County Schools and Albuquerque school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 87026 · Mesita, New Mexico

Grants-Cibola County Schools and Los Lunas school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 87026 · Mesita, New Mexico

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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 5 of the 16 ZIP Code areas Grants-Cibola County Schools 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.