ZIP Code 94303 · Palo Alto, California
Santa Clara County · 14,719 counted · 3 districts
Each percentage here is a share of the 14,719 homes counted in ZIP Code 94303, 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 94303, Palo Alto, California are not the districts named for high school, and the set changes in both directions: one district arrives for high school that no elementary answer names, and another runs the early grades and stops. 3 districts hold the 14,719 homes counted here between them, and Ravenswood City Elementary is the largest by homes. The largest share leaves 6,594 homes elsewhere: 6,593 homes with Palo Alto Unified and 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 split between two districts
2 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 94303 at this level. Ravenswood City Elementary is the largest with 8,125 homes; the smallest of them holds 6,593 homes. Ravenswood City Elementary is named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 14,719 homes counted in ZIP Code 94303, so one cell is 421 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.
- Ravenswood City Elementary School District8,125 of 14,719 homes55%
- Palo Alto Unified School District6,593 of 14,719 homes45%
Below half a percent at the grade school level: Mountain View Whisman Elementary 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.
High school is split between two districts
2 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 94303 at this level. Sequoia Union High is the largest with 8,125 homes; the smallest of them holds 6,593 homes. Sequoia Union High is named here for high school and not for the early grades.
- Sequoia Union High School District8,125 of 14,719 homes55%
- Palo Alto Unified School District6,593 of 14,719 homes45%
Below half a percent at the high school level: Mountain View-Los Altos Union 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.
The set of names changes in both directions
Sequoia Union High is named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Ravenswood City 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 94303
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 94303 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 14,719 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 6,594 homes and for high school it is wrong for 6,594 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 94303
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Sequoia Union High touches 14 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 8,125 homes inside this one; Ravenswood City Elementary touches 3 areas. Palo Alto Unified is the only district in at least one ZIP Code area somewhere in the country, while Ravenswood City Elementary is never the only one anywhere: every postal area it touches, it shares.
- Ravenswood City Elementary School District8,125 of 14,719 here · 3 ZIP areas in all
- Sequoia Union High School District8,125 of 14,719 here · 14 ZIP areas in all
- Palo Alto Unified School District6,593 of 14,719 here · 7 ZIP areas in all
Where Ravenswood City Elementary goes from here
Ravenswood City Elementary School District runs kindergarten through grade 8, and it is the only school district serving 0 of the 3 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 2 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 1. Inside its own boundary it holds 9,953 homes over 8 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 94303 is 8,125 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Sequoia Union High School District, across 2 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 94025 it holds 1,828 of 17,076 homes, or 11% of them.
How 94303 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, 299 areas in California name more than this ZIP Code does and 1,208 name fewer. Nationally more than one district is named in 53% of 33,555 areas.
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The lookup holds every ZIP Code area in the country with homes in it, including the ones with no page of their own. Opening it at 94303 recomputes the same 14,719 homes from the same snapshot, and typing five other digits answers for somewhere else. Nothing here is fetched from anywhere while you read: the whole index travels with the lookup page itself.
What to do next
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A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: 6,594 of the 14,719 homes counted in 94303 sit outside the district holding the most of them, and the line between the two runs along streets rather than around the postal area.
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What this cannot tell you
The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file. Nothing on this page adjusts one to the other. Where houses have been built or cleared since the count, a share here describes the place as it was counted rather than as it stands today, and in the fastest-growing ZIP Code areas that gap is the largest single source of error on this site.
A share on this page is a share of the homes in the ZIP Code area, not a probability for any particular address. Enrollment is decided by street address, and a district may run magnet, charter or choice programs that ignore the boundary entirely. If a decision depends on the answer, the district office is the only authority; this page shows what the federal boundary files say and when they were published.
A district boundary is not a school attendance zone. This site never says which school an address is assigned to: no current national dataset of attendance zones exists, and the district draws them itself. Nor is anything here endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau; we use their published files, and that is the whole of the relationship.
A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not an area. What is mapped here is the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Area, the closest published approximation to it. The two are not identical, and a handful of ZIP Codes used only for post office boxes or single buildings have no tabulation area at all.
Where these numbers come from
School district boundaries come from the Census Bureau's Census Geographic Relationship File, current 2026 vintage, which assigns every census block to a unified district or to an elementary and a secondary district. Homes and residents in each block come from the 2020 Census Redistricting Data (PL 94-171), H1_001 and P1_001. The ZIP Code areas come from the same Geographic Relationship File, block to ZIP Code Tabulation Area. District names and grade ranges come from the Census Gazetteer 2025, with 2020 for districts no longer listed.
The place name printed beside a ZIP Code comes from the Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Area relationship files: place, county subdivision and county, taken 2026-09-06. It is a label rather than a measurement: the Census Bureau does not publish which post office a ZIP Code belongs to, so the place named is the one covering the most land inside the area, not the city the Postal Service prints on an envelope.
Everything else on this page — the shares, the counts of districts per ZIP, the comparison between the two grade bands, the rankings — is computed here from those files. The source publishes none of it. Snapshot taken 2026-09-03.