Where no high school district is named
In 768 ZIP Code areas the federal file names an elementary district and leaves more than 2% of the homes counted there with no high school district named. That is not missing data: it is an arrangement in which a town runs its own grade school and buys high school places from somebody else. Of the 60 areas listed below, 33 are in New Hampshire (15), Arizona (11) and Maine (7), which is where the arrangement is concentrated.
- ZIP Code 85614 · Green Valley, Arizona15,499 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 03038 · Derry, New Hampshire14,018 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 85375 · Sun City West, Arizona13,907 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 90254 · Hermosa Beach, California10,037 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 04072 · Saco, Maine9,486 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 85739 · Saddlebrooke, Arizona6,338 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 85373 · Sun City, Arizona6,253 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 03106 · South Hooksett, New Hampshire5,757 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 65775 · West Plains, Missouri5,102 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 85622 · Green Valley, Arizona4,838 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 05819 · St. Johnsbury, Vermont4,311 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 74464 · Park Hill, Oklahoma4,024 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 85544 · Pine, Arizona3,954 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 85615 · Sierra Vista Southeast, Arizona3,868 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 03825 · Barrington, New Hampshire3,830 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 74066 · Sapulpa, Oklahoma3,390 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 06234 · East Brooklyn, Connecticut3,354 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 05149 · Ludlow, Vermont3,331 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 02835 · Jamestown, Rhode Island3,122 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 04605 · Ellsworth, Maine3,095 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 06281 · South Woodstock, Connecticut3,086 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 65560 · Salem, Missouri2,919 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 04401 · Bangor, Maine2,875 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 03870 · Rye, New Hampshire2,768 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 05356 · Dover, Vermont2,755 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 85623 · Mammoth, Arizona2,732 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 03841 · Hampstead, New Hampshire2,719 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 05851 · Lyndonville, Vermont2,687 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 24450 · Lexington, Virginia2,617 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 02817 · West Greenwich, Rhode Island2,575 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 05701 · Rutland, Vermont2,508 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 02822 · Exeter, Rhode Island2,469 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 86335 · Lake Montezuma, Arizona2,464 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 05255 · Manchester Center, Vermont2,461 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 02837 · Little Compton, Rhode Island2,414 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 03810 · Alton, New Hampshire2,403 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 63028 · Festus, Missouri2,380 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 06237 · Columbia, Connecticut2,294 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 11968 · North Sea, New York2,281 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 03261 · Northwood, New Hampshire2,267 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 85263 · Rio Verde, Arizona2,263 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 74063 · Sand Springs, Oklahoma2,258 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 04001 · Acton, Maine2,191 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 74501 · McAlester, Oklahoma2,169 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 03070 · Klondike Corner, New Hampshire2,167 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 65747 · Shell Knob, Missouri2,160 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 04989 · Vassalboro, Maine2,159 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 04947 · Kingfield, Maine2,138 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 03032 · Auburn, New Hampshire2,136 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 03290 · Nottingham, New Hampshire2,099 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 85736 · Three Points, Arizona2,079 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 03872 · Sanbornville, New Hampshire2,066 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 03836 · Freedom, New Hampshire2,062 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 06331 · Canterbury, Connecticut2,044 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 74331 · Cleora, Oklahoma2,042 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 06365 · Mashantucket, Connecticut2,040 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 03275 · Suncook, New Hampshire2,031 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 03234 · Epsom, New Hampshire1,988 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 03225 · Barnstead, New Hampshire1,944 homes with no high school district named
- ZIP Code 04348 · Jefferson, Maine1,911 homes with no high school district named
Which of these have a page here
1 of the 60 areas listed above have a page of their own on this site, each with the full split by grade band, the districts that reach into it and how it compares inside its state. The other 59 are answered by the lookup, which holds every one of the 33,559 ZIP Code areas in the country with homes in them and needs no page to do it. A page is added where the set of districts is unique in the country and the two grade bands have something to disagree about; everywhere else a page would only repeat what the lookup already computes.
Where the arrangement lives
Counted over all 768 areas rather than the 60 shown, 320 are in the six New England states, where a town has run its own school since before the state did and buys high school places from a neighbor or an academy. The rest are spread through the rural West and Midwest, where distance rather than history produced the same arrangement.
The largest single case is ZIP Code 85614 · Green Valley, Arizona: 15,499 of its homes have no secondary district named in the federal file at all. That is not a small print exception to a lookup answer — it is the whole answer for high school, and no national dataset contains it. The town office is the only place that knows which school the students are sent to, and whether the family chooses.
What to do with this
If your ZIP Code is on this list, the question “which district” has no answer for high school, and the right question for the town office is where its students are sent and whether the family gets a choice. Some towns designate one receiving school; some let families choose among several; a few send students to a private academy that serves as the town high school.
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: 17,865 of the 33,555 ZIP Code areas in the country with homes in them are served by more than one school district, and the line between two of 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.