Waukee Community School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Waukee Community, grouped by the ZIP Code area each block falls in. The Census Bureau publishes the blocks; the grouping is computed here, and it is the only place these particular numbers exist.

• Homes inside the boundary27,767
• Residents66,657
• ZIP Code areas it reaches9
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district5
• Where it holds under half a percent4
• Land area55 square miles
• Homes per square mile501

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 50263 this district holds 98% of the homes; in 50261 it holds no homes at all. Same district, opposite answers, and a lookup that names it without the share tells the second household the same thing as the first.

• ZIP Code 50263 · Waukee, Iowa98% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50323 · Urbandale, Iowa69% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50266 · West Des Moines, Iowa62% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50325 · Clive, Iowa37% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50063 · Dallas Center, Iowa0.6% of the homes
• ZIP Code 50003 · Adel, Iowa18 homes, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 50111 · Grimes, Iowa13 homes, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 50061 · West Des Moines, Iowa1 home, under half a percent
• ZIP Code 50261 · West Des Moines, Iowano homes at all

What one name misses in the areas it leads

Waukee Community is the largest district in 3 ZIP Code areas, and not one of them is wholly its own. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 8,603 of the 33,653 homes those areas hold. That count is computed here from census blocks; the lookups that answer this question with a single name never print it.

Waukee Community holds 11,020 of the 17,636 homes in ZIP Code 50266 · West Des Moines, Iowa, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 6,616 homes with West Des Moines Community.

In ZIP Code 50323 · Urbandale, Iowa the split runs 4,045 to 1,801 and the larger part is Waukee Community's: the rest is 1,800 homes with Urbandale Community and West Des Moines Community and 1 home in districts too small to name here.

Waukee Community reaches into ZIP Code 50325 · Clive, Iowa with 2,678 of its 7,273 homes, behind West Des Moines Community. The familiar answer for that area is the other name, and it is wrong for those 2,678 homes.

Waukee Community is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 50063 · Dallas Center, Iowa — Dallas Center-Grimes Community leads it — and Waukee Community holds 7 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Waukee Community runs pre-K through grade 12 itself, so an address it holds sees no change of authority between grade school and high school. The districts listed below are the ones that take the other homes in the ZIP Code areas it shares — West Des Moines Community, Dallas Center-Grimes Community and Adel-De Soto-Minburn Community. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

• West Des Moines Community School District11,896 homes in 4 shared ZIP Code areas
• Dallas Center-Grimes Community School District6,028 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas
• Adel-De Soto-Minburn Community School District3,238 homes in 2 shared ZIP Code areas
• Urbandale Community School District1,324 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Johnston Community School District1,314 homes in 1 shared ZIP Code area
• Van Meter Community School District1,258 homes in 3 shared ZIP Code areas

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Waukee Community in the same ZIP Code areas: West Des Moines Community, Dallas Center-Grimes Community, Urbandale Community and Van Meter Community. A single-name lookup for one of those areas has to choose between them, and the choice is right for some addresses and wrong for others.

• West Des Moines Community School District3 shared ZIP areas
• Dallas Center-Grimes Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• Urbandale Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• Van Meter Community School District1 shared ZIP area
• Woodward-Granger Community School District1 shared ZIP area

Where this district sits

• School districts in Iowa678 of 969 ZIP areas split
• Every district with a page here260 districts listed

What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address. A district settles that question on its own site: look for a school locator, a find my school tool, or an attendance zone map. Where there is none, ask the office itself.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: in 5 of the 9 ZIP Code areas Waukee Community reaches, at least one other district holds a real share of the homes as well, and the line between them runs along streets. Only the district can say which side of that line an address is on.

This site links to no district website. None of the federal files it is built from publishes one, and a guessed address is worse than none. It is the district office, not a search engine, that settles an address.

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.

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.