ZIP Code 85248 · Chandler, Arizona
Maricopa County · 20,132 counted · 3 districts
Each percentage here is a share of the 20,132 homes counted in ZIP Code 85248, 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 85248, Chandler, Arizona 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 20,132 homes counted here between them, and Chandler Unified 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 218: 218 homes with Sacaton Elementary. 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 early grades are split between two districts
2 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 85248 at this level. Chandler Unified is the largest with 19,914 homes; the smallest of them holds 218 homes. Sacaton Elementary is named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 20,132 homes counted in ZIP Code 85248, so one cell is 575 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.
- Chandler Unified District19,914 of 20,132 homes99%
- Sacaton Elementary District218 of 20,132 homes1.1%
Kyrene Elementary District reaches into ZIP Code 85248 at the grade school level and holds 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 85248 at this level. Chandler Unified is the largest with 19,914 homes; the smallest of them holds 218 homes. Casa Grande Union High is named here for high school and not for the early grades.
- Chandler Unified District19,914 of 20,132 homes99%
- Casa Grande Union High School District218 of 20,132 homes1.1%
Tempe Union High School District reaches into ZIP Code 85248 at the high school level 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:
- Chandler Unified District NCES ID 0401870 cusd80.com (480) 812-7000
- Casa Grande Union High School District NCES ID 0401740 cguhsd.org (520) 316-3360
- Sacaton Elementary District NCES ID 0407200 sacatonschools.org (520) 562-8600
The set of names changes in both directions
Casa Grande Union High is named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Sacaton 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 85248
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 85248 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 20,132 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 218 homes and for high school it is wrong for 218 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 85248
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Casa Grande Union High touches 15 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 218 homes inside this one; Sacaton Elementary touches 7 areas. Chandler Unified is the only district in at least one ZIP Code area somewhere in the country, while Casa Grande Union High is never the only one anywhere: every postal area it touches, it shares.
- Chandler Unified District19,914 of 20,132 here · 12 ZIP areas in all
- Casa Grande Union High School District218 of 20,132 here · 15 ZIP areas in all
- Sacaton Elementary District218 of 20,132 here · 7 ZIP areas in all
Where Chandler Unified goes from here
Chandler Unified District runs pre-K through grade 12, and it is the only school district serving 2 of the 12 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 7 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 3. Inside its own boundary it holds 107,321 homes over 79 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 85248 is 19,914 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Gilbert Unified District, across 3 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 85142 it holds 1,419 of 25,607 homes, or 5.5% of them.
How 85248 compares in Arizona
Across Arizona the boundary file names more than one district in 259 of the 409 ZIP Code areas it names a district for, 63% of them, and 72 areas in the state have no high school district named for part of their homes. Counting the districts named at either level, 58 areas in Arizona name more than this ZIP Code does and 266 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: 218 of the 20,132 homes counted in 85248 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.