ZIP Code 93117 · Goleta, California
Santa Barbara County · 17,878 counted · 4 districts
Each percentage here is a share of the 17,878 homes counted in ZIP Code 93117, 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 93117, Goleta, California are not the districts named for high school, and the set changes in both directions: 2 districts arrive for high school that no elementary answer names, and 2 run the early grades and stop. 4 districts hold the 17,878 homes counted here between them, and Goleta Union Elementary and Santa Barbara Unified School District (7-12) hold the most of them, 17,646 homes each. The largest share is high enough that one name is right for most of the homes counted and wrong for the other 232: 209 homes with Vista del Mar Union Elementary and 23 homes in districts too small to name here.
The early grades are split between two districts
2 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 93117 at this level. Goleta Union Elementary is the largest with 17,646 homes; the smallest of them holds 209 homes. Goleta Union Elementary and Vista del Mar Union Elementary are named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 17,878 homes counted in ZIP Code 93117, so one cell is 511 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.
- Goleta Union Elementary School District17,646 of 17,878 homes99%
- Vista del Mar Union Elementary School District209 of 17,878 homes1.2%
Below half a percent at the grade school level: Buellton Union Elementary School District holds 23 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.
College Elementary School District and Solvang Elementary School District reach into ZIP Code 93117 at the grade school level as well and hold 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 93117 at this level. Santa Barbara Unified School District (7-12) is the largest with 17,646 homes; the smallest of them holds 232 homes. Santa Barbara Unified School District (7-12) and Santa Ynez Valley Union High are named here for high school and not for the early grades.
- Santa Barbara Unified School District (7-12)17,646 of 17,878 homes99%
- Santa Ynez Valley Union High School District232 of 17,878 homes1.3%
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Then confirm it with the district office. Each district named here, with its NCES district ID, website and phone:
- Goleta Union Elementary School District NCES ID 0615510 gusd.us (805) 681-1200
- Santa Barbara Unified School District (7-12) NCES ID 0606019
- Santa Ynez Valley Union High School District NCES ID 0635850 syvuhsd.org (805) 688-6487
- Vista del Mar Union Elementary School District NCES ID 0641220 vdmusd.org (805) 686-1880
The set of names changes in both directions
Santa Barbara Unified School District (7-12) and Santa Ynez Valley Union High are named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Goleta Union Elementary and Vista del Mar Union 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 93117
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 93117 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 17,878 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 232 homes and for high school it is wrong for 232 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 93117
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Santa Ynez Valley Union High touches 12 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 232 homes inside this one; Vista del Mar Union Elementary touches 3 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.
- Goleta Union Elementary School District17,646 of 17,878 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
- Santa Barbara Unified School District (7-12)17,646 of 17,878 here · 7 ZIP areas in all
- Santa Ynez Valley Union High School District232 of 17,878 here · 12 ZIP areas in all
- Vista del Mar Union Elementary School District209 of 17,878 here · 3 ZIP areas in all
Where Goleta Union Elementary goes from here
Goleta Union Elementary School District runs kindergarten through grade 6, and it shares all 5 ZIP Code areas it touches with neighbors and is the only district in none of them. Inside its own boundary it holds 26,420 homes over 90 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 93117 is 17,646 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Santa Barbara Unified School District (7-12), across 5 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 93105 it holds 575 of 11,465 homes, or 5.0% of them.
How 93117 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, 150 areas in California name more than this ZIP Code does and 1,489 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: 232 of the 17,878 homes counted in 93117 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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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.