NYC school zones, not districts
The unofficial map of NYC public school zones, using official data.
Why
For New York City public schools, particularly elementary and middle schools, admissions priority is often determined by a resident's school zone. (Districts still matter. Some unzoned schools prioritize its closest districts.) I could find my child's zoned school with the official DOE tool, but I also wanted to know where the zone boundaries were. Like many New Yorkers, our family rents and could move soon. Incredulously, I could not find a good map of them anywhere. So I created my own.
Data
Elementary school zones — NYC Public Schools' Find a School map service (its “Elementary School Zones” layer)
(downloaded: 09/15/26; the notes in this data refer to the 2025–2026 school year)
Zone labels are derived from the school codes in that data. Where a zone's schools and note are unchanged from the 2024–2025 release on NYC Open Data, the label from that release is reused. As of 09/15/26, NYC Open Data has not published zones for any later school year.
Elementary school details — NYC MySchools
(last scraped: 03/18/25)
Who
schoolzones.nyc is a project by Jimmy Chion, a Brooklyn parent and designer.