Albuquerque Academy (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

USA / New Mexico / North Valley / Albuquerque, New Mexico / Wyoming Boulevard Northeast, 6400
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A Prepartory School. Grades 6-12.

6400 Wyoming Blvd NE
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Coordinates:   35°9'9"N   106°33'1"W

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  • This lot displaces the street network. A thur way sould be built
  • I agree... right through the middle of the snobby rich kids' school
  • Let's get one thing straight: Your school < Albuquerque Academy. Do you want your child's middle and high school years to mean something? Want a graduation to not be some hollow victory where everyone gets passed? Then send them here. Also, not everyone who goes to the Academy is rich. It is costly, but being rich is not required. Sometimes you just have to work two jobs.
  • Sandia Prep offers a better education but it also about $9,000 dollars more expensive.
  • alright i actually live in texas and just happened to see this academy from the aerial view. umm...why are lower income areas being enveloped and demolished by new subidivisions and developments, while this school's oversized lot is being left alone? i think all the empty land outside of the actual campus should be built up into a mix of shopping centers at the busy intersections and housing throughout the rest of the lot. forgive me if there's any error in my reasoning, but i don't think its right that subdivisions push farther and farther into the desert while there is a large amount of prime real estate right here inside the city. oh and blargh, you're only furthering the snobbish image that people perceive from this school, so your advertising of this supposedly great school is just being counteracted by your obvious lack of respect for other schools.
  • The North East heights in general is not a low-income area. There are pockets but very few. The land you see belonged to the Academy a long, long time ago, before this area be came developed in the last couple decades or so. The city built up around it; it used to be just fields and the school out here. It's the city that grew around it like a blight.
  • This is very true - the school owns the land and, as I undersand, owned a large portion all the way up into the mountains. The rest has been sold and developed. The school came early and the city grew around it as is happening in all of the sunbelt states. Also - there are a number of good schools, both public and private in Albuquerque, it is not about public vs. private, it is about how a student applies themself. Many of us went to public schools and received a education that allowed us a competative edge and a good future for both University studies and our careers.
  • I went to the Academy and I feel truly blessed that I went there. Some academy kids are actually hurt when people call us snobs. No doubt some are but the majority are just intelligent kids who were given an extraordinary opportunity at an education. I had plenty of public school friends throughout my entire 8 years at AA and they totally understood that I didn't consider myself better than them or anything ridiculous like that. It's definitely not fair to give the kids who go there a bad wrap either. The school may have money but that doesn't mean all of the students do. More than half are on financial aid, many with full-rides. I honestly believe the academy lets in a few super rich kids who aren't particularly talented or intelligent just to finance the education of a few more dirt-poor, amazing kids. I've seen this. So next time, before you go painting a diverse group of people with a groad, negative brush, learn something about the subject. A tall order for strangers on the internet, i know, but a totally reasonable from one human being to another.
  • I graduated from Albuquerque Academy and what you say just isn't true. The school was originally funded by a massive land grant from the Simms family about a mile wide stretching from the Rio Grande River to the Sandia Mountains Crest. The areas around it were never lower income areas being demolished for new subdivisions, it was vacant land owned by the school that they sold off to build the school and its endowment. The land around the school was largely retained to preserve some nature that they lost when they went from being a school out in the middle of the desert to one enveloped by the city. It now serves as an important part of the ecosystem harboring a number of animal species including coyotes and contains the only unpaved arroyo in the city allowing water to drain back into the aquifer. As far as the rich snobbishness that people seem to perceive this school having, while I agree it can give off that appearance, it in fact has the most diverse (though still admittedly largely white) student body in the state and provides close to half the school's students significant financial aid (that is funded by the sale of the rest of their land). Would you prefer they had not sold their land and not been able to open their doors to lower income families and controlled half the city's land in an isolated rich school out in the desert? Or would you rather they sold the last of their land and destroyed the beautiful oasis of nature in the middle of the city while surrounding themselves with more shopping centers and subdivisions? I think they made the right call.
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