ZIP Code 95062 · Santa Cruz, California
Santa Cruz County · 17,047 counted · 5 districts
Each percentage here is a share of the 17,047 homes counted in ZIP Code 95062, 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 95062, Santa Cruz, 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 3 run the early grades and stop. 5 districts hold the 17,047 homes counted here between them, and Santa Cruz City High School District (9-12) is the largest by homes. The largest share leaves 5,813 homes elsewhere: 5,813 homes with Santa Cruz City High School District (6-12). The area sits in Santa Cruz County, California.
Three districts share the early grades
3 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 95062 at this level. Live Oak Elementary is the largest with 10,138 homes; the smallest of them holds 1,096 homes. Live Oak Elementary, Santa Cruz City Elementary and Soquel Elementary are named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 17,047 homes counted in ZIP Code 95062, so one cell is 487 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.
- Live Oak Elementary School District10,138 of 17,047 homes59%
- Santa Cruz City Elementary School District5,813 of 17,047 homes34%
- Soquel Elementary School District1,096 of 17,047 homes6.4%
High school is split between two districts
2 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 95062 at this level. Santa Cruz City High School District (9-12) is the largest with 11,234 homes; the smallest of them holds 5,813 homes. Santa Cruz City High School District (9-12) and Santa Cruz City High School District (6-12) are named here for high school and not for the early grades.
- Santa Cruz City High School District (9-12)11,234 of 17,047 homes66%
- Santa Cruz City High School District (6-12)5,813 of 17,047 homes34%
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A ZIP Code names every district that can serve the area; a street address settles which one serves a home. The Census Bureau geocoder takes an exact address and returns its school districts from the current boundary files, free and with no account.
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Then confirm it with the district office. Each district named here, with its NCES district ID, website and phone:
- Santa Cruz City High School District (9-12) NCES ID 0606015
- Live Oak Elementary School District NCES ID 0621990 losd.ca (831) 475-6333
- Santa Cruz City Elementary School District NCES ID 0635590 sccs.santacruz.k12.ca.us (831) 429-3410
- Santa Cruz City High School District (6-12) NCES ID 0699011
- Soquel Elementary School District NCES ID 0637290 suesd.org (831) 464-5632
The set of names changes in both directions
Santa Cruz City High School District (9-12) and Santa Cruz City High School District (6-12) are named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Live Oak Elementary, Santa Cruz City Elementary and Soquel 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 95062
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 95062 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 17,047 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 6,909 homes and for high school it is wrong for 5,813 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 95062
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Santa Cruz City Elementary touches 6 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 5,813 homes inside this one; Live Oak 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.
- Santa Cruz City High School District (9-12)11,234 of 17,047 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
- Live Oak Elementary School District10,138 of 17,047 here · 2 ZIP areas in all
- Santa Cruz City Elementary School District5,813 of 17,047 here · 6 ZIP areas in all
- Santa Cruz City High School District (6-12)5,813 of 17,047 here · 6 ZIP areas in all
- Soquel Elementary School District1,096 of 17,047 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
Where Live Oak Elementary goes from here
Live Oak Elementary School District runs kindergarten through grade 8, and it shares 1 of the 2 ZIP Code areas it touches with neighbors, holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 1, and is the only district in none of them. Inside its own boundary it holds 10,163 homes over 3 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 95062 is 10,138 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Santa Cruz City High School District (9-12), across 1 ZIP Code area.
How 95062 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: 5,813 of the 17,047 homes counted in 95062 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.