Cheney School District

A few homes at the edge of someone else's ZIP Code

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Cheney, 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 boundary16,678
• Residents43,167
• ZIP Code areas it reaches11
• Where it is the only district2
• Where it shares with another district7
• Where it holds under half a percent2
• Land area381 square miles
• Homes per square mile44

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 99014 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 99017 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 99014 · Four Lakes, Washington100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 99020 · Spokane County, Washington22 of 22 homes
• ZIP Code 99001 · Airway Heights, Washington97% of the homes
• ZIP Code 99004 · Cheney, Washington97% of the homes
• ZIP Code 99224 · Spokane, Washington43% of the homes
• ZIP Code 99008 · Lincoln County, Washington41% of the homes
• ZIP Code 99022 · Medical Lake, Washington8.5% of the homes
• ZIP Code 99032 · Sprague, Washington0.9% of the homes
• ZIP Code 99170 · Rosalia, Washington0.8% of the homes
• ZIP Code 99031 · Spangle, Washington1 home, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 99017 · Lamont, Washingtonno homes at all

The areas it leads without holding most of the homes

Cheney is the largest district in 5 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 6,218 of the 22,473 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.

Cheney is the largest name in ZIP Code 99224 · Spokane, Washington and still holds a minority of it: 4,488 of 10,328 homes. The other 5,840 homes are 5,792 with Spokane, Liberty, Reardan-Edwall and 1 more district; 48 in districts too small to name here. This is the shape that makes a one-name answer worst — the name is right for fewer homes than it is wrong for.

Cheney holds 9,076 of the 9,381 homes in ZIP Code 99004 · Cheney, Washington, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 302 homes with Medical Lake and Liberty and 3 homes in a district too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 99001 · Airway Heights, Washington the split runs 2,631 to 73 and the larger part is Cheney's: the rest is 73 homes with Great Northern.

In ZIP Code 99014 · Four Lakes, Washington the single-name answer is the true one: Cheney holds all 38 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

ZIP Code 99020 · Spokane County, Washington is another area where one name covers everything — 22 homes, all of them inside Cheney.

Cheney is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 99022 · Medical Lake, Washington — Medical Lake leads it — and Cheney holds 294 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

In ZIP Code 99008 · Lincoln County, Washington this district is one name among 4. Reardan-Edwall leads with the largest share and Cheney holds 121 of the 293 homes counted there; no single name describes that area at all.

ZIP Code 99170 · Rosalia, Washington is another area where Cheney is present without being the answer: 4 of its 502 homes, behind Rosalia.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Cheney 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 — Spokane, Medical Lake and Liberty. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Spokane Public Schools4,181 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Medical Lake School District3,310 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Liberty School District1,352 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
• Reardan-Edwall School District823 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Great Northern School District405 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Rosalia School District365 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Cheney shares ZIP Code areas with 11 different districts. The most frequent are Liberty, Medical Lake, Reardan-Edwall and Great Northern. 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.

• Liberty School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Medical Lake School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Reardan-Edwall School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Great Northern School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Sprague School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Harrington School District1 shared ZIP area

Where this district sits

• School districts in Washington296 of 600 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 7 of the 11 ZIP Code areas Cheney 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.