ZIP Code 11040 · North New Hyde Park, New York
Nassau County · 14,089 counted · 7 districts
Each percentage here is a share of the 14,089 homes counted in ZIP Code 11040, 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.
The districts named for the early grades in ZIP Code 11040, North New Hyde Park, New York are not the districts named for high school, and the set changes in both directions: 1 district arrives for high school only, 2 run the early grades and stop, and 4 serve both bands. 7 districts hold the 14,089 homes counted here between them, and Sewanhaka Central High is the largest by homes. The largest share leaves 5,773 homes elsewhere: 5,765 homes with Herricks Union Free, Great Neck Union Free, New York City Department of Education and one more district; 8 homes in a district too small to name here.
The early grades are divided many ways
6 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 11040 at this level. New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Union Free is the largest with 7,717 homes; the smallest of them holds 118 homes. New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Union Free and Elmont Union Free are named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 14,089 homes counted in ZIP Code 11040, so one cell is 403 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.
- New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Union Free School District7,717 of 14,089 homes55%
- Herricks Union Free School District3,290 of 14,089 homes23%
- Great Neck Union Free School District1,446 of 14,089 homes10%
- New York City Department of Education911 of 14,089 homes6.5%
- Elmont Union Free School District599 of 14,089 homes4.3%
- Mineola Union Free School District118 of 14,089 homes0.8%
Below half a percent at the grade school level: Garden City Union Free School District holds 8 homes, which is why it is counted under the list rather than inside it. A lookup that named it alongside the districts above would be listing a boundary crossing rather than an answer.
High school is divided many ways
5 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 11040 at this level. Sewanhaka Central High is the largest with 8,316 homes; the smallest of them holds 118 homes. Sewanhaka Central High is named here for high school and not for the early grades.
- Sewanhaka Central High School District8,316 of 14,089 homes59%
- Herricks Union Free School District3,290 of 14,089 homes23%
- Great Neck Union Free School District1,446 of 14,089 homes10%
- New York City Department of Education911 of 14,089 homes6.5%
- Mineola Union Free School District118 of 14,089 homes0.8%
Below half a percent at the high school level: Garden City Union Free School District holds 8 homes, which is why it is counted under the list rather than inside it. A lookup that named it alongside the districts above would be listing a boundary crossing rather than an answer.
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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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Then confirm it with the district office. Each district named here, with its NCES district ID, website and phone:
- Sewanhaka Central High School District NCES ID 3626520 sewanhakaschools.org (516) 488-9800
- New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Union Free School District NCES ID 3620400 nhp-gcp.org (516) 434-2305
- Herricks Union Free School District NCES ID 3614280 herricks.org (516) 305-8901
- Great Neck Union Free School District NCES ID 3612510 greatneck.k12.ny.us (516) 441-4001
- New York City Department of Education NCES ID 3620580 (212) 374-6000
- Elmont Union Free School District NCES ID 3610620 elmontschools.org (516) 326-5500
- Mineola Union Free School District NCES ID 3619500 mineola.k12.ny.us (516) 237-2001
The set of names changes in both directions
Sewanhaka Central High is named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Union Free and Elmont Union Free run the early grades and no more. An address on the wrong street can therefore change district at the change of grade and land in a district that was never part of its elementary answer, while a neighbor two blocks away keeps one name the whole way through.
What one district name costs in 11040
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 11040 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 14,089 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 6,372 homes and for high school it is wrong for 5,773 homes. That is the whole difference between this page and a one-line answer: the same federal file, read to the end instead of to the first row.
The districts that reach into 11040
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. New York City Department of Education touches 215 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 911 homes inside this one; New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Union Free touches 2 areas. Great Neck Union Free is the only district in at least one ZIP Code area somewhere in the country, while Sewanhaka Central High is never the only one anywhere: every postal area it touches, it shares. 1 of them has a page here listing every ZIP Code area it reaches.
- Sewanhaka Central High School District8,316 of 14,089 here · 7 ZIP areas in all
- New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Union Free School District7,717 of 14,089 here · 2 ZIP areas in all
- Herricks Union Free School District3,290 of 14,089 here · 6 ZIP areas in all
- Great Neck Union Free School District1,446 of 14,089 here · 7 ZIP areas in all
- New York City Department of Education911 of 14,089 here · 215 ZIP areas in all
- Elmont Union Free School District599 of 14,089 here · 6 ZIP areas in all
- Mineola Union Free School District118 of 14,089 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
Where New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Union Free goes from here
New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Union Free School District runs pre-K through grade 6, and it shares 1 of the 2 ZIP Code areas it touches with neighbors, holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 1, and is the only district in none of them. Inside its own boundary it holds 7,746 homes over 2 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 11040 is 7,717 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Elmont Union Free School District, across 1 ZIP Code area.
How 11040 compares in New York
Across New York the boundary file names more than one district in 1,018 of the 1,807 ZIP Code areas it names a district for, 56% of them, and 6 areas in the state have no high school district named for part of their homes. Counting the districts named at either level, 1 area in New York names more than this ZIP Code does and 1,804 name fewer. Nationally more than one district is named in 53% of 33,555 areas.
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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: 5,773 of the 14,089 homes counted in 11040 sit outside the district holding the most of them, and the line between the two runs along streets rather than around the postal area.
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.
What this site can hand you instead:
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.