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ZIP Code 85009 · Phoenix, Arizona

Maricopa County · 14,287 counted · 5 districts

Grade schoolIsaac Elementary District63%9,043 of 14,287 homes
High schoolPhoenix Union High School District100%14,287 of 14,287 homes

Each percentage here is a share of the 14,287 homes counted in ZIP Code 85009, 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 85009, Phoenix, Arizona 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. 5 districts hold the 14,287 homes counted here between them, and Isaac Elementary 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 0: 5,243 homes with Murphy Elementary, Phoenix Elementary and Riverside Elementary and 1 home in a district too small to name here.

The early grades are divided four ways

4 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 85009 at this level. Isaac Elementary is the largest with 9,043 homes; the smallest of them holds 253 homes. Isaac Elementary, Murphy Elementary and Phoenix Elementary are named here for grade school and not for high school.

Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 14,287 homes counted in ZIP Code 85009, so one cell is 408 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.

  • Isaac Elementary District9,043 of 14,287 homes63%
  • Murphy Elementary District3,261 of 14,287 homes23%
  • Phoenix Elementary District1,729 of 14,287 homes12%
  • Riverside Elementary District253 of 14,287 homes1.8%

Below half a percent at the grade school level: Alhambra Elementary 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.

One district covers high school

Phoenix Union High School District is the only high school district named for ZIP Code 85009 at all, and it holds 14,287 of the 14,287 homes counted in the area. Phoenix Union High is named here for high school and not for the early grades.

  • Phoenix Union High School District14,287 of 14,287 homes100%

The set of names changes in both directions

Phoenix Union High is named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Isaac Elementary, Murphy Elementary and Phoenix 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 85009

A lookup that answers ZIP Code 85009 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 14,287 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 5,244 homes and for high school one name is right for every home counted. 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 85009

The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Phoenix Union High touches 31 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 14,287 homes inside this one; Murphy Elementary touches 3 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. 1 of them has a page here listing every ZIP Code area it reaches.

Where Isaac Elementary goes from here

Isaac Elementary District runs pre-K through grade 8, and it is the only school district serving 0 of the 6 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 4 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 2. Inside its own boundary it holds 13,132 homes over 6 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 85009 is 9,043 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Phoenix Union High School District, across 4 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 85031 it holds 310 of 8,710 homes, or 3.6% of them.

How 85009 compares in Arizona

Across Arizona the boundary file names more than one district in 259 of the 409 ZIP Code areas it names a district for, 63% of them, and 72 areas in the state have no high school district named for part of their homes. Counting the districts named at either level, 6 areas in Arizona name more than this ZIP Code does and 386 name fewer. Nationally more than one district is named in 53% of 33,555 areas.

Look up 85009 again, or look up another ZIP Code

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 85009 recomputes the same 14,287 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: one district covers every home counted in 85009, and even then the street is what enrolls a child, because magnet, charter and choice programs ignore the boundary entirely.

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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.