ZIP Code 85326 · Buckeye, Arizona
Maricopa County · 22,143 counted · 4 districts
Each percentage here is a share of the 22,143 homes counted in ZIP Code 85326, 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 85326, Buckeye, Arizona 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 3 run the early grades and stop. 4 districts hold the 22,143 homes counted here between them, and Buckeye Union 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 26: 26 homes in a district too small to name here.
Three districts share the early grades
3 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 85326 at this level. Buckeye Elementary is the largest with 14,782 homes; the smallest of them holds 325 homes. Buckeye Elementary, Liberty Elementary and Palo Verde Elementary are named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 22,143 homes counted in ZIP Code 85326, so one cell is 633 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.
- Buckeye Elementary District14,782 of 22,143 homes67%
- Liberty Elementary District7,001 of 22,143 homes32%
- Palo Verde Elementary District325 of 22,143 homes1.5%
Below half a percent at the grade school level: Gila Bend Unified District and Arlington Elementary District hold 35 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.
One district covers high school, and a sliver does not
Buckeye Union High School District is the only high school district holding a measurable share of ZIP Code 85326, with 22,117 of the 22,143 homes counted in the area; 1 district more is named below the half-percent line. Buckeye Union High is named here for high school and not for the early grades.
- Buckeye Union High School District22,117 of 22,143 homes100%
Below half a percent at the high school level: Gila Bend Unified District holds 26 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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A ZIP Code names every district that can serve the area; a street address settles which one serves a home. The Census Bureau geocoder takes an exact address and returns its school districts from the current boundary files, free and with no account.
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Then confirm it with the district office. Each district named here, with its NCES district ID, website and phone:
- Buckeye Union High School District NCES ID 0401410 buhsd.org (623) 269-1002
- Buckeye Elementary District NCES ID 0401380 besd33.org (623) 925-3400
- Liberty Elementary District NCES ID 0404320 liberty25.org (623) 474-6600
- Palo Verde Elementary District NCES ID 0405850 pvesd.org (623) 327-3690
The set of names changes in both directions
Buckeye Union High is named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Buckeye Elementary, Liberty Elementary and Palo Verde 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 85326
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 85326 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 22,143 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 7,361 homes and for high school it is wrong for 26 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 85326
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Buckeye Union High touches 8 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 22,117 homes inside this one; Buckeye 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.
- Buckeye Union High School District22,117 of 22,143 here · 8 ZIP areas in all
- Buckeye Elementary District14,782 of 22,143 here · 2 ZIP areas in all
- Liberty Elementary District7,001 of 22,143 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
- Palo Verde Elementary District325 of 22,143 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
Where Buckeye Elementary goes from here
Buckeye Elementary District runs pre-K through grade 8, and it shares both ZIP Code areas it touches with neighbors and is the only district in neither. Inside its own boundary it holds 15,752 homes over 188 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 85326 is 14,782 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Buckeye Union High School District, across 2 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 85396 it holds 970 of 13,232 homes, or 7.3% of them.
How 85326 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, 23 areas in Arizona name more than this ZIP Code does and 351 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: 26 of the 22,143 homes counted in 85326 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.