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ZIP Code 59901 · Kalispell, Montana

Flathead County · 24,589 counted · 19 districts

Grade schoolKalispell Elementary School District57%13,945 of 24,589 homes
High schoolFlathead High School District98%23,986 of 24,589 homes

Each percentage here is a share of the 24,589 homes counted in ZIP Code 59901, 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 59901, Kalispell, Montana are not the districts named for high school, and the set changes in both directions: 4 districts arrive for high school that no elementary answer names, and 15 run the early grades and stop. 19 districts hold the 24,589 homes counted here between them, and Flathead 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 603: 603 homes with Bigfork High, Whitefish High and Columbia Falls High.

The early grades are divided many ways

15 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 59901 at this level. Kalispell Elementary is the largest with 13,945 homes; the smallest of them holds 150 homes. Kalispell Elementary, Evergreen Elementary, West Valley Elementary and 12 more districts are named here for grade school and not for high school.

Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 24,589 homes counted in ZIP Code 59901, so one cell is 703 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.

  • Kalispell Elementary School District13,945 of 24,589 homes57%
  • Evergreen Elementary School District2,571 of 24,589 homes10%
  • West Valley Elementary School District2,055 of 24,589 homes8.4%
  • Cayuse Prairie Elementary School District1,161 of 24,589 homes4.7%
  • Somers Elementary School District1,104 of 24,589 homes4.5%
  • Smith Valley Elementary School District851 of 24,589 homes3.5%
  • Helena Flats Elementary School District848 of 24,589 homes3.4%
  • Creston Elementary School District551 of 24,589 homes2.2%
  • Fair-Mont-Egan Elementary School District507 of 24,589 homes2.1%
  • Whitefish Elementary School District213 of 24,589 homes0.9%
  • Columbia Falls Elementary School District171 of 24,589 homes0.7%
  • Bigfork Elementary School District157 of 24,589 homes0.6%
  • Kila Elementary School District155 of 24,589 homes0.6%
  • Marion Elementary School District150 of 24,589 homes0.6%
  • Olney-Bissell Elementary School District150 of 24,589 homes0.6%

Deer Park Elementary School District and Swan River Elementary School District reach into ZIP Code 59901 at the grade school level and hold no home counted in it: the boundary crosses the postal area without picking up a single one.

High school is divided four ways

4 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 59901 at this level. Flathead High is the largest with 23,986 homes; the smallest of them holds 171 homes. Flathead High, Bigfork High, Whitefish High and one more district are named here for high school and not for the early grades.

  • Flathead High School District23,986 of 24,589 homes98%
  • Bigfork High School District219 of 24,589 homes0.9%
  • Whitefish High School District213 of 24,589 homes0.9%
  • Columbia Falls High School District171 of 24,589 homes0.7%

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Then confirm it with the district office. Each district named here, with its NCES district ID, website and phone:

  • Flathead High School District NCES ID 3015420 sd5.k12.mt.us (406) 751-3434
  • Kalispell Elementary School District NCES ID 3015450 sd5.k12.mt.us (406) 751-3434
  • Evergreen Elementary School District NCES ID 3010920 evergreensd50.com (406) 751-1112
  • West Valley Elementary School District NCES ID 3027570 westvalleyschool.com (406) 755-7239
  • Cayuse Prairie Elementary School District NCES ID 3005990 cayuseprairie.com (406) 756-4560
  • Somers Elementary School District NCES ID 3000002 somersdist29.org (406) 857-3301
  • Smith Valley Elementary School District NCES ID 3002850 smithvalleyschool.org (406) 756-4535
  • Helena Flats Elementary School District NCES ID 3013800 helenaflats.org (406) 257-2301
  • Creston Elementary School District NCES ID 3007710 creston.k12.mt.us (406) 755-2859
  • Fair-Mont-Egan Elementary School District NCES ID 3010230 fremontana.net (406) 755-7072
  • Bigfork High School District NCES ID 3003840 bigforkschools.org (406) 837-7400
  • Whitefish Elementary School District NCES ID 3027740 wsd44.org (406) 862-8640
  • Whitefish High School District NCES ID 3027790 wsd44.org (406) 862-8640
  • Columbia Falls Elementary School District NCES ID 3007110 cfmtschools.net (406) 892-6550
  • Columbia Falls High School District NCES ID 3007140 cfmtschools.net (406) 892-6550
  • Bigfork Elementary School District NCES ID 3003820 bigforkschools.org (406) 837-7400
  • Kila Elementary School District NCES ID 3015570 kilaschool.com (406) 257-2428
  • Marion Elementary School District NCES ID 3017700 (406) 854-2333
  • Olney-Bissell Elementary School District NCES ID 3010950 olneybissellschool.com (406) 862-2828

The set of names changes in both directions

Flathead High, Bigfork High, Whitefish High and one more district are named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Kalispell Elementary, Evergreen Elementary, West Valley Elementary and 12 more districts 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 59901

A lookup that answers ZIP Code 59901 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 24,589 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 10,644 homes and for high school it is wrong for 603 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 59901

The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Columbia Falls Elementary touches 10 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 171 homes inside this one; Evergreen Elementary touches 1 area. 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.

  • Flathead High School District23,986 of 24,589 here · 9 ZIP areas in all
  • Kalispell Elementary School District13,945 of 24,589 here · 3 ZIP areas in all
  • Evergreen Elementary School District2,571 of 24,589 here · 1 ZIP area in all
  • West Valley Elementary School District2,055 of 24,589 here · 1 ZIP area in all
  • Cayuse Prairie Elementary School District1,161 of 24,589 here · 3 ZIP areas in all
  • Somers Elementary School District1,104 of 24,589 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
  • Smith Valley Elementary School District851 of 24,589 here · 1 ZIP area in all
  • Helena Flats Elementary School District848 of 24,589 here · 2 ZIP areas in all
  • Creston Elementary School District551 of 24,589 here · 2 ZIP areas in all
  • Fair-Mont-Egan Elementary School District507 of 24,589 here · 2 ZIP areas in all
  • Bigfork High School District219 of 24,589 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
  • Whitefish Elementary School District213 of 24,589 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
  • Whitefish High School District213 of 24,589 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
  • Columbia Falls Elementary School District171 of 24,589 here · 10 ZIP areas in all
  • Columbia Falls High School District171 of 24,589 here · 10 ZIP areas in all
  • Bigfork Elementary School District157 of 24,589 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
  • Kila Elementary School District155 of 24,589 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
  • Marion Elementary School District150 of 24,589 here · 3 ZIP areas in all
  • Olney-Bissell Elementary School District150 of 24,589 here · 4 ZIP areas in all

Where Kalispell Elementary goes from here

Kalispell Elementary School District runs pre-K through grade 8, and it shares 2 of the 3 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 13,953 homes over 62 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 59901 is 13,945 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Somers Elementary School District, across 2 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 59932 it holds 8 of 828 homes, or 1.0% of them.

How 59901 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, 0 areas in Montana name more than this ZIP Code does and 367 name fewer. Nationally more than one district is named in 53% of 33,555 areas.

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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 59901 recomputes the same 24,589 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: 603 of the 24,589 homes counted in 59901 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:

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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.