This study examines how the PPDB policy has been implemented in every high school in the city of Batam using the zoning system. The PPDB policy implementation through the zoning system is one of the policies for equitable access and educational quality because the principle is to bring educational services closer to the community and equalize educational quality. The existence of these policies creates a classification for specific schools, which are labeled as favorite schools. Using qualitative methods, it has been discovered that in its implementation, zoning indirectly creates gaps through the emergence of terms such as "favorite" and "superior" state schools, while schools without a specific label are abandoned by the community. In contrast, the disparity between the school's capacity and the number of registrants has resulted in some students being unable to enroll in schools with their preferred labels and thus missing out on the opportunity to attend school during the school year.