ZIP Code 96003 · Redding, California
Shasta County · 19,960 counted · 7 districts
Each percentage here is a share of the 19,960 homes counted in ZIP Code 96003, 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 96003, Redding, California are not the districts named for high school, and the set changes in both directions: 1 district arrives for high school only, 5 run the early grades and stop, and 1 serves both bands. 7 districts hold the 19,960 homes counted here between them, and Shasta Union High is the largest by homes. The largest share leaves 8,165 homes elsewhere: 8,165 homes with Gateway Unified. 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 divided many ways
6 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 96003 at this level. Gateway Unified is the largest with 8,165 homes; the smallest of them holds 110 homes. Columbia Elementary, Enterprise Elementary, Redding Elementary and 2 more districts are named here for grade school and not for high school.
Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 19,960 homes counted in ZIP Code 96003, so one cell is 570 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.
- Gateway Unified School District8,165 of 19,960 homes41%
- Columbia Elementary School District3,764 of 19,960 homes19%
- Enterprise Elementary School District3,607 of 19,960 homes18%
- Redding Elementary School District3,101 of 19,960 homes16%
- Bella Vista Elementary School District1,207 of 19,960 homes6.0%
- Junction Elementary School District110 of 19,960 homes0.6%
Below half a percent at the grade school level: North Cow Creek Elementary School District holds 6 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.
High school is split between two districts
2 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 96003 at this level. Shasta Union High is the largest with 11,795 homes; the smallest of them holds 8,165 homes. Shasta Union High is named here for high school and not for the early grades.
- Shasta Union High School District11,795 of 19,960 homes59%
- Gateway Unified School District8,165 of 19,960 homes41%
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Then confirm it with the district office. Each district named here, with its NCES district ID, website and phone:
- Shasta Union High School District NCES ID 0636600 suhsd.net (530) 241-3261
- Gateway Unified School District NCES ID 0614950 gatewayusd.org (530) 245-7900
- Columbia Elementary School District NCES ID 0609450 columbiasd.com (530) 223-1915
- Enterprise Elementary School District NCES ID 0612810 eesd.net (530) 224-4100
- Redding Elementary School District NCES ID 0632040 reddingschools.net/home (530) 225-0011
- Bella Vista Elementary School District NCES ID 0604350 bveagles.com (530) 549-4415
- Junction Elementary School District NCES ID 0619200 junctionesd.net (530) 547-3274
The set of names changes in both directions
Shasta Union High is named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Columbia Elementary, Enterprise Elementary, Redding Elementary and 2 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 96003
A lookup that answers ZIP Code 96003 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 19,960 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 11,795 homes and for high school it is wrong for 8,165 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 96003
The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Shasta Union High touches 24 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 11,795 homes inside this one; Columbia Elementary touches 1 area. Gateway Unified is the only district in at least one ZIP Code area somewhere in the country, while Shasta Union High is never the only one anywhere: every postal area it touches, it shares. 1 of them has a page here listing every ZIP Code area it reaches.
- Shasta Union High School District11,795 of 19,960 here · 24 ZIP areas in all
- Gateway Unified School District8,165 of 19,960 here · 8 ZIP areas in all
- Columbia Elementary School District3,764 of 19,960 here · 1 ZIP area in all
- Enterprise Elementary School District3,607 of 19,960 here · 3 ZIP areas in all
- Redding Elementary School District3,101 of 19,960 here · 4 ZIP areas in all
- Bella Vista Elementary School District1,207 of 19,960 here · 5 ZIP areas in all
- Junction Elementary School District110 of 19,960 here · 3 ZIP areas in all
Where Gateway Unified goes from here
Gateway Unified School District runs kindergarten through grade 12, and it is the only school district serving 1 of the 8 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 3 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 4. Inside its own boundary it holds 13,449 homes over 616 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 96003 is 8,165 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Shasta Union High School District, across 2 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 96065 it holds 11 of 260 homes, or 4.2% of them.
How 96003 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, 15 areas in California name more than this ZIP Code does and 1,752 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: 8,165 of the 19,960 homes counted in 96003 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.