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ZIP Code 59102 · Billings, Montana

Yellowstone County · 22,262 counted · 2 districts

Grade schoolBillings Elementary School District100%22,159 of 22,262 homes
High schoolBillings High School District100%22,262 of 22,262 homes

Each percentage here is a share of the 22,262 homes counted in ZIP Code 59102, 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 59102, Billings, Montana are not the districts named for high school, and the set changes in both directions: 1 district arrives for high school that no elementary answer names, and 1 runs the early grades and stops. 2 districts hold the 22,262 homes counted here between them, and Billings High is the largest by homes. Districts holding under half a percent of the homes named at their own level are listed separately below and are not counted in that number. The area sits in Yellowstone County, Montana.

One district covers the early grades, and a sliver does not

Billings Elementary School District is the only grade school district holding a measurable share of ZIP Code 59102, with 22,159 of the 22,262 homes counted in the area; 1 district more is named below the half-percent line. Billings Elementary is named here for grade school and not for high school.

Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 22,262 homes counted in ZIP Code 59102, so one cell is 636 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.

  • Billings Elementary School District22,159 of 22,262 homes100%

Below half a percent at the grade school level: Elysian Elementary School District holds 103 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.

One district covers high school

Billings High School District is the only high school district named for ZIP Code 59102 at all, and it holds 22,262 of the 22,262 homes counted in the area. Billings High is named here for high school and not for the early grades.

  • Billings High School District22,262 of 22,262 homes100%

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The set of names changes in both directions

Billings High is named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Billings Elementary runs 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 59102

A lookup that answers ZIP Code 59102 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 22,262 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 103 homes and for high school one name is right for every home counted. 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 59102

The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Billings High touches 8 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 22,262 homes inside this one; Billings Elementary touches 5 areas. Not one of them is ever the only district in a ZIP Code area anywhere in the country: every postal area they touch, they share with somebody. 1 of them has a page here listing every ZIP Code area it reaches.

Where Billings Elementary goes from here

Billings Elementary School District runs pre-K through grade 8, and it shares 4 of the 5 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 52,480 homes over 92 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 59102 is 22,159 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Billings High School District, across 4 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 59101 it holds 12,623 of 18,725 homes, or 67% of them.

How 59102 compares in Montana

Across Montana the boundary file names more than one district in 313 of the 368 ZIP Code areas it names a district for, 85% of them, and 1 area in the state has no high school district named for part of their homes. Counting the districts named at either level, 227 areas in Montana name more than this ZIP Code does and 55 name fewer. Nationally more than one district is named in 53% of 33,555 areas.

Look up 59102 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 59102 recomputes the same 22,262 homes from the same snapshot, and typing five other digits answers for somewhere else. No server is asked for the answer: the whole index travels with the lookup page itself.

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: one district covers every home counted in 59102, and even then the street is what enrolls a child, because magnet, charter and choice programs ignore the boundary entirely.

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.