Portales Municipal Schools
New Mexico · runs pre-K through grade 12
NCES ID 3502100 · portalesschools.com · (575) 356-7000
There is no ZIP Code area where Portales Municipal Schools is the only school district serving the homes. It holds a real share in 1 of them and shares every one, with 2 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
The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Portales Municipal Schools, 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 boundary7,687
- Residents17,521
- ZIP Code areas it reaches4
- Where it is the only district0
- Where it shares with another district1
- Where it holds under half a percent3
- Land area346 square miles
- Homes per square mile22
The ZIP Code areas it reaches
The spread is the thing to notice. In 88130 this district holds 97% of the homes; in 88132 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 88130 · Portales, New Mexico97% of the homes
- ZIP Code 88116 · Elida, New Mexico1 home, under half a percent
- ZIP Code 88101 · Clovis, New Mexico1 home, under half a percent
- ZIP Code 88132 · Causey, New Mexicono homes at all
What one name misses in the areas it leads
Portales Municipal Schools is the largest district in 1 ZIP Code area, and that area is not wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 221 of the 7,906 homes that area holds. That count is computed here from census blocks; the lookups that answer this question with a single name never print it.
Portales Municipal Schools holds 7,685 of the 7,906 homes in ZIP Code 88130 · Portales, New Mexico, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 189 homes with Floyd Municipal Schools and Dora Consolidated Schools; 32 homes in districts too small to name here.
Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes
Portales Municipal 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 — Clovis Municipal Schools, Elida Municipal Schools and Dora Consolidated Schools. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.
- Clovis Municipal Schools19,701 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
- Elida Municipal Schools199 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
- Dora Consolidated Schools194 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
- Floyd Municipal Schools114 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
- Texico Municipal Schools106 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
- Roswell Independent Schools8 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
Who it shares ZIP Codes with
These districts appear alongside Portales Municipal Schools in the same ZIP Code areas: Dora Consolidated Schools and Floyd Municipal 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.
- Dora Consolidated Schools1 shared ZIP area
- Floyd Municipal Schools1 shared ZIP area
Portales Municipal Schools and Dora Consolidated Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 88130 · Portales, New Mexico
Portales Municipal Schools and Floyd Municipal Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share
- ZIP Code 88130 · Portales, New Mexico
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 4 ZIP Code areas Portales Municipal 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.