ZIP Code 92026 · Escondido, California
San Diego County · 19,237 counted · 5 districts
Each percentage here is a share of the 19,237 homes counted in ZIP Code 92026, 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 92026, Escondido, California 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 3 serve both bands. 5 districts hold the 19,237 homes counted here between them, and Escondido Union Elementary and Escondido Union High hold the most of them, 16,402 homes each. The largest share leaves 2,835 homes elsewhere: 2,835 homes with Valley Center-Pauma Unified, San Marcos Unified and Bonsall Unified. The area sits in San Diego County, California.
The early grades are divided four ways
4 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 92026 at this level. Escondido Union Elementary is the largest with 16,402 homes; the smallest of them holds 277 homes. Escondido Union Elementary is named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 19,237 homes counted in ZIP Code 92026, so one cell is 550 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.
- Escondido Union Elementary School District16,402 of 19,237 homes85%
- Valley Center-Pauma Unified School District1,391 of 19,237 homes7.2%
- San Marcos Unified School District1,167 of 19,237 homes6.1%
- Bonsall Unified School District277 of 19,237 homes1.4%
High school is divided four ways
4 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 92026 at this level. Escondido Union High is the largest with 16,402 homes; the smallest of them holds 277 homes. Escondido Union High is named here for high school and not for the early grades.
- Escondido Union High School District16,402 of 19,237 homes85%
- Valley Center-Pauma Unified School District1,391 of 19,237 homes7.2%
- San Marcos Unified School District1,167 of 19,237 homes6.1%
- Bonsall Unified School District277 of 19,237 homes1.4%
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Then confirm it with the district office. Each district named here, with its NCES district ID, website and phone:
- Escondido Union Elementary School District NCES ID 0612880 eusd.org (760) 432-2400
- Escondido Union High School District NCES ID 0612910 euhsd.org (760) 291-3200
- Valley Center-Pauma Unified School District NCES ID 0600069 vcpusd.org (760) 749-0464
- San Marcos Unified School District NCES ID 0634880 smusd.org (760) 752-1299
- Bonsall Unified School District NCES ID 0601426 bonsallusd.com (760) 631-5200
The set of names changes in both directions
Escondido Union High is named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Escondido Union 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 92026
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 92026 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 19,237 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 2,835 homes and for high school it is wrong for 2,835 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 92026
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Escondido Union High touches 11 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 16,402 homes inside this one; Bonsall Unified touches 8 areas. Valley Center-Pauma Unified is the only district in at least one ZIP Code area somewhere in the country, while Escondido Union Elementary is never the only one anywhere: every postal area it touches, it shares.
- Escondido Union Elementary School District16,402 of 19,237 here · 9 ZIP areas in all
- Escondido Union High School District16,402 of 19,237 here · 11 ZIP areas in all
- Valley Center-Pauma Unified School District1,391 of 19,237 here · 10 ZIP areas in all
- San Marcos Unified School District1,167 of 19,237 here · 10 ZIP areas in all
- Bonsall Unified School District277 of 19,237 here · 8 ZIP areas in all
Where Escondido Union Elementary goes from here
Escondido Union Elementary School District runs kindergarten through grade 8, and it shares 6 of the 9 ZIP Code areas it touches with neighbors, holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 3, and is the only district in none of them. Inside its own boundary it holds 57,324 homes over 76 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 92026 is 16,402 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Escondido Union High School District, across 6 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 92069 it holds 92 of 16,000 homes, or 0.6% of them.
How 92026 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: 2,835 of the 19,237 homes counted in 92026 sit outside each of the 2 districts tied for the most of them, and the line 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.