ZIP Code 90250 · Hawthorne, California
Los Angeles County · 34,677 counted · 5 districts
Each percentage here is a share of the 34,677 homes counted in ZIP Code 90250, 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 90250, Hawthorne, California are not the districts named for high school, and the set changes in both directions: 1 district arrives for high school only, 2 run the early grades and stop, and 2 serve both bands. 5 districts hold the 34,677 homes counted here between them, and Centinela Valley Union High is the largest by homes. The largest share leaves 5,639 homes elsewhere: 5,638 homes with Wiseburn Unified and Los Angeles Unified; 1 home in a district too small to name here. 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 divided four ways
4 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 90250 at this level. Hawthorne Elementary is the largest with 26,649 homes; the smallest of them holds 1,057 homes. Hawthorne Elementary and Lawndale Elementary are named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 34,677 homes counted in ZIP Code 90250, so one cell is 991 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.
- Hawthorne Elementary School District26,649 of 34,677 homes77%
- Wiseburn Unified School District4,581 of 34,677 homes13%
- Lawndale Elementary School District2,389 of 34,677 homes6.9%
- Los Angeles Unified School District1,057 of 34,677 homes3.0%
Below half a percent at the grade school level: Inglewood Unified School District holds 1 home, 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.
Three districts share high school
3 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 90250 at this level. Centinela Valley Union High is the largest with 29,038 homes; the smallest of them holds 1,057 homes. Centinela Valley Union High is named here for high school and not for the early grades.
- Centinela Valley Union High School District29,038 of 34,677 homes84%
- Wiseburn Unified School District4,581 of 34,677 homes13%
- Los Angeles Unified School District1,057 of 34,677 homes3.0%
Below half a percent at the high school level: Inglewood Unified School District holds 1 home, 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.
Have a street address?
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:
- Centinela Valley Union High School District NCES ID 0607920 cvuhsd.org (310) 263-3200
- Hawthorne Elementary School District NCES ID 0616680 hawthorne.k12.ca.us (310) 676-2276
- Wiseburn Unified School District NCES ID 0601428 wiseburn.org (310) 725-2101
- Lawndale Elementary School District NCES ID 0621210 lawndalesd.net (310) 973-1300
- Los Angeles Unified School District NCES ID 0622710 lausd.org (213) 241-1000
The set of names changes in both directions
Centinela Valley Union High is named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Hawthorne Elementary and Lawndale 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 90250
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 90250 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 34,677 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 8,028 homes and for high school it is wrong for 5,639 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 90250
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Los Angeles Unified touches 170 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 1,057 homes inside this one; Hawthorne Elementary touches 3 areas. Los Angeles Unified is the only district in at least one ZIP Code area somewhere in the country, while Centinela Valley Union High is never the only one anywhere: every postal area it touches, it shares. 1 of them has a page here listing every ZIP Code area it reaches.
- Centinela Valley Union High School District29,038 of 34,677 here · 8 ZIP areas in all
- Hawthorne Elementary School District26,649 of 34,677 here · 3 ZIP areas in all
- Wiseburn Unified School District4,581 of 34,677 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
- Lawndale Elementary School District2,389 of 34,677 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
- Los Angeles Unified School District1,057 of 34,677 here · 170 ZIP areas in all
Where Hawthorne Elementary goes from here
Hawthorne Elementary School District runs kindergarten 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 26,829 homes over 4 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 90250 is 26,649 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Centinela Valley Union High School District, across 2 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 90303 it holds 146 of 7,651 homes, or 1.9% of them.
How 90250 compares in California
Across California the boundary file names more than one district in 996 of the 1,788 ZIP Code areas it names a district for, 56% of them, and 3 areas in the state have no high school district named for part of their homes. Counting the districts named at either level, 70 areas in California name more than this ZIP Code does and 1,638 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: 5,639 of the 34,677 homes counted in 90250 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.