ZIP Code 59701 · Butte-Silver Bow, Montana
Silver Bow County · 16,720 counted · 3 districts
Each percentage here is a share of the 16,720 homes counted in ZIP Code 59701, 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 59701, Butte-Silver Bow, 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 2 run the early grades and stop. 3 districts hold the 16,720 homes counted here between them, and Butte High is the largest by homes. The largest share is high enough that one name is right for most of the homes counted and wrong for the other 99: 99 homes in districts too small to name here.
The early grades are split between two districts
2 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 59701 at this level. Butte Elementary is the largest with 16,324 homes; the smallest of them holds 297 homes. Butte Elementary and Ramsay Elementary are named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 16,720 homes counted in ZIP Code 59701, so one cell is 478 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.
- Butte Elementary School District16,324 of 16,720 homes98%
- Ramsay Elementary School District297 of 16,720 homes1.8%
Below half a percent at the grade school level: Boulder Elementary School District, Anaconda Elementary School District and Whitehall Elementary School District hold 99 homes between them, which is why they are counted under the list rather than inside it. A lookup that named them alongside the districts above would be listing a boundary crossing rather than an answer.
Deer Lodge Elementary School District, Divide Elementary School District and Melrose Elementary School District reach into ZIP Code 59701 at the grade school level as well and hold no home counted in it: the boundary crosses the postal area without picking up a single one.
One district covers high school, and a sliver does not
Butte High School District is the only high school district holding a measurable share of ZIP Code 59701, with 16,621 of the 16,720 homes counted in the area; 4 districts more are named below the half-percent line. Butte High is named here for high school and not for the early grades.
- Butte High School District16,621 of 16,720 homes99%
Below half a percent at the high school level: Jefferson High School District, Anaconda High School District and Whitehall High School District hold 99 homes between them, which is why they are counted under the list rather than inside it. A lookup that named them alongside the districts above would be listing a boundary crossing rather than an answer.
Powell County High School District reaches into ZIP Code 59701 at the high school level as well and holds no home counted in it: the boundary crosses the postal area without picking up a single one.
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Then confirm it with the district office. Each district named here, with its NCES district ID, website and phone:
- Butte High School District NCES ID 3005310 bsd1.org (406) 533-2220
- Butte Elementary School District NCES ID 3005280 bsd1.org (406) 533-2500
- Ramsay Elementary School District NCES ID 3021850 ramsayschool.com (406) 782-5470
The set of names changes in both directions
Butte High is named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Butte Elementary and Ramsay Elementary 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 59701
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 59701 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 16,720 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 396 homes and for high school it is wrong for 99 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 59701
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Butte High touches 6 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 16,621 homes inside this one; Butte Elementary touches 2 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.
- Butte High School District16,621 of 16,720 here · 6 ZIP areas in all
- Butte Elementary School District16,324 of 16,720 here · 2 ZIP areas in all
- Ramsay Elementary School District297 of 16,720 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
Where Butte Elementary goes from here
Butte Elementary School District runs pre-K through grade 8, 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 16,324 homes over 217 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 59701 is 16,324 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Butte High School District, across 1 ZIP Code area.
How 59701 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, 146 areas in Montana name more than this ZIP Code does and 141 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: 99 of the 16,720 homes counted in 59701 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.