ZIP Code 92243 · El Centro, California
Imperial County · 16,709 counted · 5 districts
Each percentage here is a share of the 16,709 homes counted in ZIP Code 92243, 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 92243, El Centro, California 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 4 run the early grades and stop. 5 districts hold the 16,709 homes counted here between them, and Central 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 75: 75 homes in districts too small to name here.
The early grades are divided four ways
4 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 92243 at this level. El Centro Elementary is the largest with 13,538 homes; the smallest of them holds 432 homes. El Centro Elementary, McCabe Union Elementary, Meadows Union Elementary and one more district are named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 16,709 homes counted in ZIP Code 92243, so one cell is 477 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.
- El Centro Elementary School District13,538 of 16,709 homes81%
- McCabe Union Elementary School District1,927 of 16,709 homes12%
- Meadows Union Elementary School District729 of 16,709 homes4.4%
- Seeley Union Elementary School District432 of 16,709 homes2.6%
Below half a percent at the grade school level: Imperial Unified School District, Holtville Unified School District and Heber Elementary School District hold 83 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.
Calexico Unified School District reaches into ZIP Code 92243 at the grade school level as well and holds no home counted in it: the boundary crosses the postal area without picking up a single one.
One district covers high school, and a sliver does not
Central Union High School District is the only high school district holding a measurable share of ZIP Code 92243, with 16,634 of the 16,709 homes counted in the area; 3 districts more are named below the half-percent line. Central Union High is named here for high school and not for the early grades.
- Central Union High School District16,634 of 16,709 homes100%
Below half a percent at the high school level: Imperial Unified School District and Holtville Unified School District hold 75 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.
Calexico Unified School District reaches into ZIP Code 92243 at the high school level as well 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:
- Central Union High School District NCES ID 0608010 cuhsd.net (760) 336-4500
- El Centro Elementary School District NCES ID 0612030 ecesd.org (760) 352-5712
- McCabe Union Elementary School District NCES ID 0624180 muesd.net (760) 335-5200
- Meadows Union Elementary School District NCES ID 0624390 meadowsunion.org (760) 352-7512
- Seeley Union Elementary School District NCES ID 0636210 seeley.k12.ca.us (760) 352-3571
The set of names changes in both directions
Central Union High is named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and El Centro Elementary, McCabe Union Elementary, Meadows Union Elementary and one more district 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 92243
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 92243 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 16,709 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 3,171 homes and for high school it is wrong for 75 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 92243
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Central Union High touches 7 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 16,634 homes inside this one; El Centro 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.
- Central Union High School District16,634 of 16,709 here · 7 ZIP areas in all
- El Centro Elementary School District13,538 of 16,709 here · 2 ZIP areas in all
- McCabe Union Elementary School District1,927 of 16,709 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
- Meadows Union Elementary School District729 of 16,709 here · 3 ZIP areas in all
- Seeley Union Elementary School District432 of 16,709 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
Where El Centro Elementary goes from here
El Centro Elementary School District runs kindergarten 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 14,087 homes over 11 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 92243 is 13,538 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Central Union High School District, across 2 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 92251 it holds 549 of 6,968 homes, or 7.9% of them.
How 92243 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: 75 of the 16,709 homes counted in 92243 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.