ZIP Code 60085 · Waukegan, Illinois
Lake County · 25,048 counted · 3 districts
Each percentage here is a share of the 25,048 homes counted in ZIP Code 60085, 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 60085, Waukegan, Illinois are not the districts named for high school, and the set changes in both directions: 1 district arrives for high school only, 1 runs the early grades and stops, and 1 serves both bands. 3 districts hold the 25,048 homes counted here between them, and Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 is the largest by homes. The largest share leaves 3,619 homes elsewhere: 3,579 homes with Woodland Community Consolidated School District 50 and 40 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 60085 at this level. Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 is the largest with 21,429 homes; the smallest of them holds 3,579 homes. Woodland Community Consolidated School District 50 is named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 25,048 homes counted in ZIP Code 60085, so one cell is 716 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.
- Waukegan Community Unit School District 6021,429 of 25,048 homes86%
- Woodland Community Consolidated School District 503,579 of 25,048 homes14%
Below half a percent at the grade school level: Gurnee School District 56 holds 40 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.
North Chicago School District 187 and Oak Grove School District 68 reach into ZIP Code 60085 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.
High school is split between two districts
2 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 60085 at this level. Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 is the largest with 21,429 homes; the smallest of them holds 3,619 homes. Warren Township High School District 121 is named here for high school and not for the early grades.
- Waukegan Community Unit School District 6021,429 of 25,048 homes86%
- Warren Township High School District 1213,619 of 25,048 homes14%
Libertyville Community High School District 128 and North Chicago School District 187 reach into ZIP Code 60085 at the high school level and hold 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:
- Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 NCES ID 1741250 wps60.org (224) 303-1000
- Warren Township High School District 121 NCES ID 1740800 d121.org (847) 548-7144
- Woodland Community Consolidated School District 50 NCES ID 1743110 dist50.net (847) 596-5601
The set of names changes in both directions
Warren Township High School District 121 is named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Woodland Community Consolidated School District 50 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 60085
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 60085 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 25,048 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 3,619 homes and for high school it is wrong for 3,619 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 60085
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Warren Township High School District 121 touches 7 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 3,619 homes inside this one; Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 touches 4 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.
- Waukegan Community Unit School District 6021,429 of 25,048 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
- Warren Township High School District 1213,619 of 25,048 here · 7 ZIP areas in all
- Woodland Community Consolidated School District 503,579 of 25,048 here · 7 ZIP areas in all
Where Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 goes from here
Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 runs pre-K through grade 12, and it shares 2 of the 4 ZIP Code areas it touches with neighbors, holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 2, and is the only district in none of them. Inside its own boundary it holds 29,384 homes over 19 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 60085 is 21,429 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Warren Township High School District 121, across 2 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 60087 it holds 7,947 of 10,371 homes, or 77% of them.
How 60085 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, 395 areas in Illinois name more than this ZIP Code does and 717 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: 3,619 of the 25,048 homes counted in 60085 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.
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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.