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Albuquerque Public Schools

New Mexico · runs pre-K through grade 12

NCES ID 3500060 · aps.edu · (505) 880-3744

Albuquerque covers 301,804 of the homes in 30 ZIP Code areas, but its smallest measured presence is a different thing entirely: in ZIP Code area 87068 it holds 18 of 1,992 homes, or 0.9% of them. An address in that ZIP Code is almost certainly not in this district, and a lookup that names the district without the share says the opposite. Below the half-percent line this page draws it reaches 4 further ZIP Code areas, the least of them no homes at all in 87117.

A few homes at the edge of someone else's ZIP Code

Albuquerque covers 1,216 square miles, and the ZIP Code areas inside it are small by comparison. Its 301,804 homes are spread thinly enough that the postal map and the school map have little reason to agree anywhere.

  • Homes inside the boundary301,804
  • Residents681,523
  • ZIP Code areas it reaches30
  • Where it is the only district21
  • Where it shares with another district5
  • Where it holds under half a percent4
  • Land area1,216 square miles
  • Homes per square mile248

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 87114 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 87151 it holds no homes at all. Same district, opposite answers, and a lookup that names it without the share tells the second household the same thing as the first.

  • ZIP Code 87114 · Albuquerque, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87111 · Albuquerque, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87120 · Albuquerque, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87121 · Pajarito Mesa, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87105 · South Valley, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87109 · Albuquerque, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87112 · Albuquerque, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87123 · Albuquerque, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87108 · Albuquerque, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87110 · Albuquerque, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87107 · Albuquerque, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87106 · Albuquerque, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87102 · Albuquerque, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87113 · Albuquerque, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87104 · Albuquerque, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87116 · Kirtland AFB, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87008 · Cedar Crest, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87022 · Isleta, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87101 · Albuquerque, New Mexico16 of 16 homes
  • ZIP Code 87048 · Corrales, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87122 · Sandia Heights, New Mexico100% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87059 · Ponderosa Pine, New Mexico82% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87047 · Edgewood, New Mexico76% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87026 · Mesita, New Mexico36% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87015 · Edgewood, New Mexico3.6% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87068 · Bosque Farms, New Mexico0.9% of the homes
  • ZIP Code 87124 · Rio Rancho Estates, New Mexico1 home, under half a percent
  • ZIP Code 87117 · Kirtland AFB, New Mexicono homes at all
  • ZIP Code 87144 · Rio Rancho, New Mexicono homes at all
  • ZIP Code 87151 · Bernalillo County, New Mexicono homes at all

What an answer of one district name misses here

Albuquerque is the largest district in 23 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 1,450 of the 302,539 homes those areas hold — though in 19 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

ZIP Code 87059 · Ponderosa Pine, New Mexico is a two-district area: 3,640 of its 4,459 homes are inside Albuquerque, and the other 819 homes are with Moriarty Municipal Schools. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

Albuquerque holds 1,984 of the 2,602 homes in ZIP Code 87047 · Edgewood, New Mexico, so its name is right for most of the area and wrong for the rest: 617 homes with Bernalillo and Moriarty Municipal Schools; 1 home in a district too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 87122 · Sandia Heights, New Mexico the split runs 7,328 to 12 and the larger part is Albuquerque's: the rest is 12 homes in a district too small to name here.

In ZIP Code 87008 · Cedar Crest, New Mexico the single-name answer is the true one: Albuquerque holds all 1,143 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

ZIP Code 87022 · Isleta, New Mexico is another area where one name covers everything — 351 homes, all of them inside Albuquerque.

Albuquerque reaches into ZIP Code 87026 · Mesita, New Mexico with 487 of its 1,353 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Grants-Cibola County Schools leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 487 homes.

Albuquerque is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 87015 · Edgewood, New Mexico — Moriarty Municipal Schools leads it — and Albuquerque holds 209 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

ZIP Code 87068 · Bosque Farms, New Mexico is another area where Albuquerque is present without being the answer: 18 of its 1,992 homes, behind Los Lunas.

Who takes the other homes in its ZIP Codes

Albuquerque runs pre-K through grade 12 itself, so an address it holds sees no change of authority between grade school and high school. The districts listed below are the ones that take the other homes in the ZIP Code areas it shares — Rio Rancho, Moriarty Municipal Schools and Los Lunas. They are neighbors on the same postal ground, not the next stop for its own students.

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

These districts appear alongside Albuquerque in the same ZIP Code areas: Moriarty Municipal Schools, Los Lunas, Bernalillo and Grants-Cibola County Schools. A single-name lookup for one of those areas has to choose between them, and the choice is right for some addresses and wrong for others.

Albuquerque and Moriarty Municipal Schools school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 87015 · Edgewood, New Mexico
  • ZIP Code 87047 · Edgewood, New Mexico
  • ZIP Code 87059 · Ponderosa Pine, New Mexico

Albuquerque and Los Lunas school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 87026 · Mesita, New Mexico
  • ZIP Code 87068 · Bosque Farms, New Mexico

Albuquerque and Bernalillo school district boundary: the ZIP Codes they share

  • ZIP Code 87047 · Edgewood, New Mexico

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What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address: look on its site for a school locator, a find my school tool or an attendance zone map, or call the office.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: in 5 of the 30 ZIP Code areas Albuquerque reaches, at least one other district holds a real share of the homes as well, and the line between them runs along streets. Only the district can say which side of that line an address is on.

District websites and phone numbers here come from the NCES Common Core of Data directory, 2024-25 school year, filed under the same district ID as the Census boundary files. Where it lists no usable website, none is printed rather than guessed.

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.

Where these numbers come from

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file, so a fast-growing area may have changed since; ZIP Codes here are the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Areas; a share is a share of homes, not the chance that one address is in a district; and a district is not a school attendance zone. Every source, file and caveat is on the method page.