School districts in New Mexico

34% of the 367 populated ZIP Code areas in New Mexico are served by more than one school district — 123 of them, which puts the state 36th among the fifty-two. It is organized into 89 unified districts, the largest being Albuquerque at 301,804 homes. Its most divided ZIP Code area, 88116, is split between 5 districts for elementary grades alone. The two districts that share the most ZIP Codes here are Des Moines Municipal Schools and Clayton, in 4 of them. Counted by homes rather than by ZIP Code area, 21% of the state's housing sits in a ZIP Code that more than one district serves.

How many school districts are in New Mexico?

89: the Census boundary file draws 89 school districts in New Mexico that reach at least one ZIP Code area with homes, 89 unified, 0 elementary and 0 secondary. A ZIP Code here can sit in more than one of them, which is why a school district lookup by ZIP Code for New Mexico lists them all: find your school district by ZIP code.

How often a ZIP Code here crosses a district line

The state sits well below the national rate of 53%. Albuquerque alone covers 301,804 homes, and districts that size swallow whole postal areas rather than splitting them. Where a ZIP Code area here does cross a line, it is worth checking precisely because it is unusual: 123 of the 367 do.

ZIP Code areas with a district367
Served by more than one district123 (34%)
Grade school and high school differ0 (0%)
No high school district named0
Unified districts89
Elementary districts0
Secondary districts0
Homes in no district at all0

District pages for New Mexico, largest first

Albuquerque is the largest of them by far: at 301,804 homes it holds at least 27 times as many as Grants-Cibola County Schools, second on this list with 10,892. It reaches 30 ZIP Code areas, and the areas it covers alone are counted on its own page rather than assumed from its size.

The most divided ZIP Code area in New Mexico

ZIP Code area 88116 holds 225 homes and 5 districts take a real share of them for the early grades, but Elida Municipal Schools holds 88% on its own at that level. This is the shape that makes a single-name lookup look right: it names Elida Municipal Schools and describes most of the homes here, and silently not the rest.

Grade schoolElida Municipal Schools88%199 of 225 homes

High schoolElida Municipal Schools88%199 of 225 homes

Each percentage here is a share of the 225 homes counted in ZIP Code 88116, not the chance that any one address is in that district. Enrollment follows the street: two houses on opposite sides of the same road can be in different districts, and only the district office can say which.

Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 225 homes counted in ZIP Code 88116, so one cell is 6 homes, rounded to the nearest whole cell. Cells lit solid are the homes one district holds, and the unlit cells are the homes held by the other districts in the same list.

Elida Municipal Schools199 of 225 homes88%
Dora Consolidated Schools8 of 225 homes3.6%
Roswell Independent Schools8 of 225 homes3.6%
Floyd Municipal Schools7 of 225 homes3.1%
Tatum Municipal Schools2 of 225 homes0.9%

One further district reaches into this area and holds 1 home in it, under half a percent of the homes named at this level.

For grade school, an answer of one district name would be wrong for 26 of the 225 here.

Where a single district name still works in New Mexico

Across the 367 ZIP Code areas in New Mexico with homes in them, an answer of one district name misses 21,957 of the 939,882 homes they hold. That is 2.3% of the state, and in 219 of the areas the largest district for the early grades holds every home counted: this is a state where the familiar answer is usually the right one, and the areas below are where it is not.

In ZIP Code 87701 · Las Vegas, New Mexico the largest district for grade school is Las Vegas City, and naming it alone misses 3,883 of the 9,299 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 3,882 homes with West Las Vegas and 1 home in districts too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 87506 · Tano Road, New Mexico the largest district for grade school is Santa Fe, and naming it alone misses 3,703 of the 8,163 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 3,703 homes with Pojoaque Valley.

In ZIP Code 87031 · Los Lunas, New Mexico the largest district for grade school is Los Lunas, and naming it alone misses 1,715 of the 16,721 homes counted there. For grade school the rest is 1,715 homes with Belen Consolidated Schools.

Where a ZIP Code here names more than one district

Of the 367 ZIP Code areas in New Mexico that the federal file names a district for, 123 name more than one school district. These are the 12 with the most, starting at 5 districts in one postal area: Elida, Willard and Mosquero. Each row opens the full answer for that ZIP Code, with every district named for grade school and for high school and the share of the homes each one holds.

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: 123 of the 367 ZIP Code areas in New Mexico with a district named for 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.