Academy Place in Albuquerque, NM

Academy Place is a subdivision in the Northeast Heights of Albuquerque, inside the 87111 ZIP code. Wood Brothers and Krupiak built the tract in the late 1970s, and the plat went down in stages: an amended Academy Place and a fourth unit followed the original filing. Houses are single-family and lean toward ranch and Southwest styling. No homeowners association governs the streets, and nothing about the tract is gated or age-restricted. Academy Hills Park, a city park with a one-mile paved perimeter loop, a playground and sports fields, lies in the same stretch of the Heights near Juan Tabo and Eubank.

Albuquerque Public Schools serves the tract through S.Y. Jackson and Hubert Humphrey elementary schools, Eisenhower Middle School and Eldorado High School. A retail center sits along Eubank Boulevard for everyday errands, and the arterial grid of the far Northeast Heights makes the run to the freeway a short one.