ZIP Code 11040 · North New Hyde Park, New York

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.

The set of names changes in both directions

Sewanhaka Central High is named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Elmont Union Free and New Hyde Park-Garden City Park 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 is the only school district serving 0 of the 2 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 1 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 1. 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 4 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.

• School districts in New York1,018 of 1,807 ZIP areas split
• Where grade school and high school are different districts2,682 ZIP areas where the bands disagree

Look up 11040 again, or look up another ZIP Code

The lookup holds every ZIP Code area in the country with homes in it, including the ones with no page of their own. Opening it at 11040 recomputes the same 14,089 homes from the same snapshot, and typing five other digits answers for somewhere else. Nothing here is fetched from anywhere while you read: the whole index travels with the lookup page itself.

• ZIP Code 11040 · North New Hyde Park, New York33,555 ZIP areas indexed

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: 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.

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.

What this site can hand you instead:

• Sewanhaka Central High School District7 ZIP Code areas in all
• How this is worked out4 Census Bureau files

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.