ZIP Code 60056 · Mount Prospect, Illinois
Cook County · 22,975 counted · 7 districts
Each percentage here is a share of the 22,975 homes counted in ZIP Code 60056, 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 60056, Mount Prospect, Illinois 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 6 run the early grades and stop. 7 districts hold the 22,975 homes counted here between them, and Township High School District 214 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 92: 92 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 60056 at this level. Community Consolidated School District 59 is the largest with 8,774 homes; the smallest of them holds 286 homes. Community Consolidated School District 59, Mount Prospect School District 57, River Trails School District 26 and 3 more districts are named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 22,975 homes counted in ZIP Code 60056, so one cell is 656 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.
- Community Consolidated School District 598,774 of 22,975 homes38%
- Mount Prospect School District 577,622 of 22,975 homes33%
- River Trails School District 264,493 of 22,975 homes20%
- Prospect Heights School District 231,012 of 22,975 homes4.4%
- Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21788 of 22,975 homes3.4%
- Arlington Heights School District 25286 of 22,975 homes1.2%
Des Plaines Community Consolidated School District 62 reaches into ZIP Code 60056 at the grade school level and holds 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
Township High School District 214 is the only high school district holding a measurable share of ZIP Code 60056, with 22,883 of the 22,975 homes counted in the area; 1 district more is named below the half-percent line. Township High School District 214 is named here for high school and not for the early grades.
- Township High School District 21422,883 of 22,975 homes100%
Below half a percent at the high school level: Maine Township High School District 207 holds 92 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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Then confirm it with the district office. Each district named here, with its NCES district ID, website and phone:
- Township High School District 214 NCES ID 1704170 d214.org (847) 718-7600
- Community Consolidated School District 59 NCES ID 1713770 ccsd59.org (847) 593-4300
- Mount Prospect School District 57 NCES ID 1727210 d57.org (847) 394-7300
- River Trails School District 26 NCES ID 1733870 (847) 297-4120
- Prospect Heights School District 23 NCES ID 1732850 d23.org (847) 870-3850
- Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21 NCES ID 1742210 ccsd21.org (847) 537-8270
- Arlington Heights School District 25 NCES ID 1704140 sd25.org (847) 758-4900
The set of names changes in both directions
Township High School District 214 is named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Community Consolidated School District 59, Mount Prospect School District 57, River Trails School District 26 and 3 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 60056
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 60056 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 22,975 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 14,201 homes and for high school it is wrong for 92 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 60056
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Township High School District 214 touches 12 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 22,883 homes inside this one; River Trails School District 26 touches 3 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.
- Township High School District 21422,883 of 22,975 here · 12 ZIP areas in all
- Community Consolidated School District 598,774 of 22,975 here · 6 ZIP areas in all
- Mount Prospect School District 577,622 of 22,975 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
- River Trails School District 264,493 of 22,975 here · 3 ZIP areas in all
- Prospect Heights School District 231,012 of 22,975 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
- Wheeling Community Consolidated School District 21788 of 22,975 here · 6 ZIP areas in all
- Arlington Heights School District 25286 of 22,975 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
Where Community Consolidated School District 59 goes from here
Community Consolidated School District 59 runs pre-K through grade 8, and it shares 5 of the 6 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 28,234 homes over 22 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 60056 is 8,774 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Township High School District 214, across 5 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 60016 it holds 3,280 of 26,365 homes, or 12% of them.
How 60056 compares in Illinois
Across Illinois the boundary file names more than one district in 1,034 of the 1,394 ZIP Code areas it names a district for, 74% of them, and 2 areas in the state have no high school district named for part of their homes. Counting the districts named at either level, 34 areas in Illinois name more than this ZIP Code does and 1,326 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: 92 of the 22,975 homes counted in 60056 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.