ZIP Code 85022 · Phoenix, Arizona

The early grades are split between two districts

2 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 85022 at this level. Paradise Valley Unified is the largest with 20,868 homes; the smallest of them holds 3,490 homes. Washington Elementary is named here for grade school and not for high school.

Every track below is 35 cells long and stands for all 24,358 homes counted in ZIP Code 85022, so one cell is 696 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.

• Paradise Valley Unified District20,868 of 24,358 homes86%
• Washington Elementary District3,490 of 24,358 homes14%

High school is split between two districts

2 districts hold a measurable share of ZIP Code 85022 at this level. Paradise Valley Unified is the largest with 20,868 homes; the smallest of them holds 3,490 homes. Glendale Union High is named here for high school and not for the early grades.

• Paradise Valley Unified District20,868 of 24,358 homes86%
• Glendale Union High School District3,490 of 24,358 homes14%

The set of names changes in both directions

Glendale Union High is named for high school here and for no elementary grades, and Washington 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 85022

A lookup that answers ZIP Code 85022 with one district name has to pick one of the names below and drop the rest. Measured against the 24,358 homes counted here, for the early grades it is wrong for 3,490 homes and for high school it is wrong for 3,490 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 85022

The districts named above are not alike in size or in reach. Glendale Union High touches 18 ZIP Code areas in all and holds 3,490 homes inside this one; Washington Elementary touches 14 areas. Paradise Valley Unified is the only district in at least one ZIP Code area somewhere in the country, while Glendale Union High is never the only one anywhere: every postal area it touches, it shares. 2 of them have a page here listing every ZIP Code area it reaches.

• Paradise Valley Unified District20,868 of 24,358 here · 16 ZIP areas in all
• Glendale Union High School District3,490 of 24,358 here · 18 ZIP areas in all
• Washington Elementary District3,490 of 24,358 here · 14 ZIP areas in all

Where Paradise Valley Unified goes from here

Paradise Valley Unified District runs pre-K through grade 12, and it is the only school district serving 2 of the 16 ZIP Code areas it touches, shares 10 more with neighbors, and holds under half a percent of the homes in the remaining 4. Inside its own boundary it holds 123,283 homes over 98 square miles; the part of it counted in ZIP Code 85022 is 20,868 of those. The district it shares the most postal ground with is Scottsdale Unified District, across 5 ZIP Code areas. Its thinnest measured foothold is elsewhere: in ZIP Code area 85027 it holds 1,179 of 17,489 homes, or 6.7% of them.

How 85022 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, 58 areas in Arizona name more than this ZIP Code does and 266 name fewer. Nationally more than one district is named in 53% of 33,555 areas.

• School districts in Arizona259 of 409 ZIP areas split
• Where grade school and high school are different districts2,682 ZIP areas where the bands disagree

Look up 85022 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 85022 recomputes the same 24,358 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.

• ZIP Code 85022 · Phoenix, Arizona33,555 ZIP areas indexed

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: 3,490 of the 24,358 homes counted in 85022 sit outside the district holding the most of them, and the line between the two runs along streets rather than around the postal area.

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.

What this site can hand you instead:

• Paradise Valley Unified District16 ZIP Code areas in all
• How this is worked out4 Census Bureau files

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.