Puyallup School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

At 1,011 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Puyallup covers 53 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 boundary53,888
• Residents140,680
• ZIP Code areas it reaches9
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district8
• Where it holds under half a percent1
• Land area53 square miles
• Homes per square mile1,011

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 98443 this district holds 97% of the homes; in 98390 it holds 1 home, under half a percent. 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 98443 · Waller, Washington97% of the homes
• ZIP Code 98374 · South Hill, Washington93% of the homes
• ZIP Code 98371 · Puyallup, Washington91% of the homes
• ZIP Code 98372 · Edgewood, Washington90% of the homes
• ZIP Code 98373 · South Hill, Washington83% of the homes
• ZIP Code 98375 · South Hill, Washington62% of the homes
• ZIP Code 98424 · Fife, Washington21% of the homes
• ZIP Code 98404 · Tacoma, Washington1.2% of the homes
• ZIP Code 98390 · Sumner, Washington1 home, under half a percent

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Puyallup is the largest district in 6 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 9,152 of the 61,934 homes those areas hold. That count is computed here from census blocks; the lookups that answer this question with a single name never print it.

Puyallup holds 6,764 of the 10,848 homes in ZIP Code 98375 · South Hill, Washington, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 4,084 homes with Bethel and Franklin Pierce.

ZIP Code 98373 · South Hill, Washington is a two-district area: 9,041 of its 10,870 homes are inside Puyallup, and the other 1,829 homes are with Franklin Pierce. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 98372 · Edgewood, Washington the split runs 9,944 to 1,152 and the larger part is Puyallup's: the rest is 1,152 homes with Sumner and Fife.

In ZIP Code 98443 · Waller, Washington the split runs 2,194 to 77 and the larger part is Puyallup's: the rest is 77 homes with Franklin Pierce.

Puyallup reaches into ZIP Code 98424 · Fife, Washington with 960 of its 4,671 homes, behind Fife. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 960 homes.

Puyallup is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 98404 · Tacoma, Washington — Tacoma leads it — and Puyallup holds 145 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Puyallup 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 — Tacoma, Sumner and Bethel. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• Tacoma Public Schools10,600 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Sumner School District6,125 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Bethel School District4,584 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Fife Public Schools4,320 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Franklin Pierce School District4,125 homes in 5 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Puyallup in the same ZIP Code areas: Franklin Pierce, Fife, Bethel and Sumner. 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.

• Franklin Pierce School District5 shared ZIP areas
• Fife Public Schools3 shared ZIP areas
• Bethel School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Sumner School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Tacoma Public Schools1 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 8 of the 9 ZIP Code areas Puyallup 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.