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Milwaukee School District

Wisconsin · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 5509600 · milwaukee.k12.wi.us · (414) 475-8002

Milwaukee is the only school district serving 12 of the 31 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 17 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 2. It covers 257,723 homes and 577,222 residents. By homes covered it ranks 1st of the 421 districts in Wisconsin.

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

At 2,682 homes to the square mile this is city territory, and district lines in a city follow streets. Milwaukee covers 96 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 boundary257,723
  • Residents577,222
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches31
  • Where it is the only district12
  • Where it shares with another district17
  • Where it holds under half a percent2
  • Land area96 square miles
  • Homes per square mile2,682

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 53202 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 53154 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 53202 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53207 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53204 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53218 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53216 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53206 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53224 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53233 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53205 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53203 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53295 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin7 of 7 homes
  • ZIP Code 53212 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53208 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin99% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53215 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin99% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53210 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin98% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53225 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin87% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53222 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin82% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53209 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin72% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53221 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin69% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53223 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin66% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53211 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin53% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53219 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin50% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53220 · Greenfield, Wisconsin41% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53228 · Greenfield, Wisconsin21% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53214 · West Allis, Wisconsin17% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53213 · Wauwatosa, Wisconsin16% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53227 · West Allis, Wisconsin16% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53226 · Wauwatosa, Wisconsin7.9% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53217 · River Hills, Wisconsin1.7% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 53235 · St. Francis, Wisconsin10 homes, under half a percent
  • ZIP Code 53154 · Oak Creek, Wisconsinno homes at all

What an answer of one district name misses here

Milwaukee is the largest district in 22 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 35,432 of the 278,987 homes those areas hold — though in 11 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

Milwaukee holds 8,040 of the 16,080 homes in ZIP Code 53219 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 8,040 homes with West Allis and Greenfield.

In ZIP Code 53211 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin the split runs 8,960 to 8,016 and the larger part is Milwaukee's: the rest is 8,016 homes with Shorewood and Whitefish Bay.

Milwaukee is one of 4 districts the file names for ZIP Code 53221 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin at that level. It holds 11,574 of the 16,682 homes there; the rest is 5,108 homes with Greenfield, Franklin Public and Oak Creek-Franklin. One name for that area is not a simplification, it is a different answer for 5,108 of the homes in it.

ZIP Code 53223 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin is a two-district area: 8,567 of its 12,973 homes are inside Milwaukee, and the other 4,406 homes are with Brown Deer. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 53222 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin the split runs 9,593 to 2,137 and the larger part is Milwaukee's: the rest is 2,137 homes with Wauwatosa.

ZIP Code 53220 · Greenfield, Wisconsin is close to being two districts in equal parts: Milwaukee holds 5,009 of its 12,187 homes and Greenfield leads the rest. A lookup that picks the larger name is making a coin-toss look like a fact.

Milwaukee reaches into ZIP Code 53214 · West Allis, Wisconsin with 2,886 of its 16,706 homes, behind West Allis. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 2,886 homes.

ZIP Code 53213 · Wauwatosa, Wisconsin is another area where Milwaukee is present without being the answer: 2,015 of its 12,538 homes, behind Wauwatosa.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Milwaukee 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 — West Allis, Wauwatosa and Oak Creek-Franklin. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Milwaukee shares ZIP Code areas with 13 different districts. The most frequent are Wauwatosa, West Allis, Greenfield and Brown Deer. 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.

Milwaukee and Wauwatosa school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 53208 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • ZIP Code 53210 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • ZIP Code 53213 · Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
  • ZIP Code 53222 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • ZIP Code 53225 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • ZIP Code 53226 · Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

Milwaukee and West Allis school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 53214 · West Allis, Wisconsin
  • ZIP Code 53215 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • ZIP Code 53219 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • ZIP Code 53227 · West Allis, Wisconsin
  • ZIP Code 53228 · Greenfield, Wisconsin

Milwaukee and Greenfield school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 53219 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • ZIP Code 53220 · Greenfield, Wisconsin
  • ZIP Code 53221 · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • ZIP Code 53228 · Greenfield, Wisconsin

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.

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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 17 of the 31 ZIP Code areas Milwaukee 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.