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ZIP Code 93274 · Tulare, California

Tulare County · 24,164 counted · 9 districts

Grade schoolTulare City Elementary School District89%21,397 of 24,164 homes
High schoolTulare Joint Union High School District98%23,718 of 24,164 homes

Each percentage here is a share of the 24,164 homes counted in ZIP Code 93274, 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 93274, Tulare, 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 7 run the early grades and stop. 9 districts hold the 24,164 homes counted here between them, and Tulare Joint 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 446: 411 homes with Porterville Unified School District (9-12) and 35 homes in districts too small to name here.

The early grades are divided many ways

7 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 93274 at this level. Tulare City Elementary is the largest with 21,397 homes; the smallest of them holds 235 homes. Tulare City Elementary, Palo Verde Union Elementary, Sundale Union Elementary and 4 more districts are named here for grade school and not for high school.

Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 24,164 homes counted in ZIP Code 93274, so one cell is 690 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.

  • Tulare City Elementary School District21,397 of 24,164 homes89%
  • Palo Verde Union Elementary School District695 of 24,164 homes2.9%
  • Sundale Union Elementary School District618 of 24,164 homes2.6%
  • Woodville Elementary School District411 of 24,164 homes1.7%
  • Oak Valley Union Elementary School District398 of 24,164 homes1.6%
  • Waukena Joint Union Elementary School District257 of 24,164 homes1.1%
  • Liberty Elementary School District235 of 24,164 homes1.0%

Below half a percent at the grade school level: Buena Vista Elementary School District, Kit Carson Union Elementary School District and Corcoran Joint Unified School District, and one more hold 153 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.

Sunnyside Union Elementary School District and Tipton Elementary School District reach into ZIP Code 93274 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 93274 at this level. Tulare Joint Union High is the largest with 23,718 homes; the smallest of them holds 411 homes. Tulare Joint Union High and Porterville Unified School District (9-12) are named here for high school and not for the early grades.

  • Tulare Joint Union High School District23,718 of 24,164 homes98%
  • Porterville Unified School District (9-12)411 of 24,164 homes1.7%

Below half a percent at the high school level: Hanford Joint Union High School District, Corcoran Joint Unified School District and Exeter Unified School District (9-12) 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.

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The set of names changes in both directions

Tulare Joint Union High and Porterville Unified School District (9-12) are named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Tulare City Elementary, Palo Verde Union Elementary, Sundale Union Elementary and 4 more districts 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 93274

A lookup that answers ZIP Code 93274 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 24,164 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 2,767 homes and for high school it is wrong for 446 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 93274

The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Porterville Unified School District (9-12) touches 19 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 411 homes inside this one; Oak Valley Union Elementary touches 1 area. 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.

  • Tulare Joint Union High School District23,718 of 24,164 here · 11 ZIP areas in all
  • Tulare City Elementary School District21,397 of 24,164 here · 3 ZIP areas in all
  • Palo Verde Union Elementary School District695 of 24,164 here · 2 ZIP areas in all
  • Sundale Union Elementary School District618 of 24,164 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
  • Porterville Unified School District (9-12)411 of 24,164 here · 19 ZIP areas in all
  • Woodville Elementary School District411 of 24,164 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
  • Oak Valley Union Elementary School District398 of 24,164 here · 1 ZIP area in all
  • Waukena Joint Union Elementary School District257 of 24,164 here · 3 ZIP areas in all
  • Liberty Elementary School District235 of 24,164 here · 3 ZIP areas in all

Where Tulare City Elementary goes from here

Tulare City Elementary School District runs kindergarten through grade 8, and it shares 1 of the 3 ZIP Code areas it touches with neighbors, holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 2, and is the only district in none of them. Inside its own boundary it holds 21,404 homes over 45 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 93274 is 21,397 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Porterville Unified School District (9-12), across 1 ZIP Code area.

How 93274 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, 5 areas in California name more than this ZIP Code does and 1,779 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: 446 of the 24,164 homes counted in 93274 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.