Acadia

Overview

Acadia sits in Calgary’s inner southeast, bounded by Heritage Drive SE along the north, Macleod Trail along the west, Southland Drive SE along the south, and the Bow River along the east. Three of those four edges are arterial roads. The fourth is the river, which is worth registering before you look at a map thumbnail and assume the community resolves into a neat four-sided grid of streets.

It is a settled community and it does not present itself as anything else. The homes that changed hands here over the twelve months to August 2026 carried a median build year of 1965, so the middle home in this market is past its sixtieth year. The Acadia Community Association, which runs the recreation complex covered further down, describes itself as a volunteer-based non-profit established in 1961. Those two dates are independent of each other and they point at the same era.

What Acadia does have in quantity is trading. It recorded 146 residential sales over the twelve months to August 2026, at a blended median of $598,250, running from $130,000 at the bottom to $994,000 at the top. More useful than the blended figure: a quarter of sales closed under $415,000 and a quarter closed over $720,000, which puts the middle half of the market in a $305,000 band. And that band is not one product type with a fringe of something else attached. Detached, semi-detached, row and apartment product all traded here in double digits over the same twelve months. One further sale fell in a fifth product type, and this guide publishes no figure for it, because a single transaction is too thin to say anything reliable about. That is why the segment counts throughout this guide add to 145 rather than 146.

That combination is the honest case for Acadia. It has no destination amenity that sells the community in one sentence. What it has instead is a public school pathway whose three designated schools all sit inside the boundaries, a recreation complex the community association built and still operates, four price rungs with real sales behind each one, and a ceiling under a million dollars. If you want a headline, Acadia does not have one. If you want a community where you can actually find comparables for whatever you are buying, it does.

David’s take

The vibe

Acadia’s anchor is the Acadia Recreation Complex at 240 - 90 Ave SE, and the useful thing about it is that it is a working facility rather than a plaque. It is operated by the Acadia Community Association, the volunteer non-profit established in 1961, and it describes itself as the largest curling rink in Calgary, with 10 sheets of ice. Alongside the curling it carries a full-size hockey arena with stands, two squash courts, three courts set up for racquetball, wallyball and four-wall handball, and two pickleball courts.

The rest of its schedule tells you as much as the sport list does. The complex rents one large hall and two meeting rooms, opens the curling rink floor as tradeshow space from mid-April through the end of June once the ice comes out, and rents a social lounge overlooking the rink from April through September. That is a building with a year-round booking calendar and a revenue model behind it. If your family plays winter sport, that facility is a genuine reason to look here.

It is also, on the evidence, the amenity. This guide is not going to manufacture a second one. What Acadia offers beyond the complex is position and settled housing: an inner-southeast community with Macleod Trail down the west side and the Bow River down the east, and a housing stock whose median sale was built in 1965. Whether six decades of settled housing is an asset or a compromise is a genuinely personal call, and it is one to make by driving the streets rather than by reading a description of them.

One practical note on the community association: the 1961 date is the association’s own founding year, which it publishes itself. It is not a statement of when the community was subdivided or annexed, and no primary source consulted for this guide states that date. Where a published history is missing, the honest answer is that it is missing.

Housing stock

Four product types trade with real volume behind each one, and each of them carried enough sales over the twelve months to August 2026 to shop rather than to sample.

Detached homes are the core at 85 sales, 58.2% of the market, with a median of $670,500. That leaves roughly four in ten sales in attached and apartment product, which is a substantial share of the community rather than a fringe. Semi-detached, or half-duplex, product recorded 19 sales at a $722,000 median. Row and townhouse product recorded 20 sales at a $334,250 median, with condo fees running to a median of about $374 a month across those sales. Apartments recorded 21 sales at a $215,000 median, with fees at a median of about $556 a month.

Two things follow from that shape. The first is the semi-detached and detached inversion covered above: the two segments overlap in name only when it comes to pricing, and the comparables have to be drawn inside the correct one. The second is the ceiling. The highest sale in the twelve months to August 2026 was $994,000, at 9819 2 Street SE, and it was an ordinary detached resale rather than an estate property. The floor was $130,000, an apartment at 203-315 Heritage Drive SE. So the whole community fits inside a band that tops out just under a million dollars, with no estate pocket stretching the top of the range and no luxury tier operating on its own logic.

For a buyer, that makes the community legible. Every rung of the ladder has real sales volume behind it, and the top and bottom of the range are both defined by ordinary product rather than by an outlier. If you want help reading where a specific home or floor plan sits inside these bands, the buyer’s guide is a good starting point.

Type	Typical price range	Notes
Detached	Median ~$670.5K	85 sales, 58.2% of the market. The community core, and the segment the top sale of $994,000 came from.
Semi-detached (half duplex)	Median ~$722K	19 sales, and the highest median of any segment in the community, though on a cell that size the exact size of the gap is not something to lean on. Price against half-duplex comparables, not detached ones.
Row / townhouse	Median ~$334.3K	20 sales. Condo fees ran to a median of about $374 a month across those sales.
Apartment / condo	Median ~$215K	21 sales, including the community floor of $130,000. Condo fees ran to a median of about $556 a month.

Recent sales

Over the twelve months to August 2026, Acadia recorded 146 residential sales. The blended median sold price was $598,250, homes sold at about 98.2% of list price, and the median sale took 26 days. Detached homes made up 58.2% of sales, and prices ran from $130,000 to $994,000.

The two market-condition numbers there are worth reading together. A median sale-to-list ratio of 98.2% means the middle seller gave up a little under two per cent off the asking price, and a median of 26 days means half of everything that sold was gone inside about four weeks. Together they describe a functioning market with room to negotiate at the margins, where neither side is setting the terms.

Two of the figures in the stat block at the top of this page are arithmetic means rather than medians, and in Acadia they do not both point the same way. The average sale price of $560,663 is the mean across all 146 sales, and it sits below the $598,250 median quoted throughout this guide. A mean usually lands above a median, so the reason this one does not is worth stating: the 21 apartment sales at a $215,000 median and the 20 row and townhouse sales at a $334,250 median sit a long way under the middle of this market, and they weigh on an average in a way they cannot weigh on a median. The average of 39 days on market is a mean as well, against the 26-day median above, and that one runs the ordinary way round. A minority of listings that sat much longer pulls the average up while the median stays where the middle sale landed.

The spread is where the detail lives. A quarter of sales closed below $415,000 and a quarter closed above $720,000, so the middle half of the market occupies a $305,000 band. That band straddles the boundary between the attached segments and the detached one. At $598,250 the blended median sits above both the apartment and the row medians and below both the detached and the semi-detached medians, so it describes no segment in the community.

Twelve-month aggregates by segment

• Detached. 85 sales, 58.2% of the market. Median about $670,500. The segment that produced the community high of $994,000, at 9819 2 Street SE.
• Semi-detached (half duplex). 19 sales. Median about $722,000, the highest segment median in the community, on the smallest of the four published cells.
• Row / townhouse. 20 sales. Median about $334,250, with condo fees at a median of about $374 a month.
• Apartment / condo. 21 sales. Median about $215,000, including the community floor of $130,000 at 203-315 Heritage Drive SE. Condo fees at a median of about $556 a month.

Getting around

Acadia has a bus rapid transit station on its northern edge and two Red Line CTrain stations off its western one, and a map of the boundary roads will not tell you about either.

Take the bus rapid transit first. Fairmount Drive Station, on Heritage Drive SE at Fairmount Drive SE, is a MAX Teal stop. MAX is Calgary Transit’s bus rapid transit network, and the Teal line runs Westbrook to Douglas Glen as route 306. Its two platforms sit on either side of Heritage Drive SE, which is Acadia’s north boundary, so checked against the City of Calgary’s own boundary polygon the eastbound platform falls inside the community and the westbound one falls a few metres outside it. Route 149, Point Trotter Industrial, uses the same station.

The CTrain here is the Red Line, which Calgary Transit operates as route 201 between Somerset-Bridlewood and Tuscany. Heritage Station and Southland Station both serve Acadia and neither one is in it. Both platforms sit on the west side of Macleod Trail. Measured from the platform to the nearest point of the community boundary, Heritage is about 140 metres out and Southland about 360 metres, and that is a straight line to the boundary rather than a walk from anyone’s front door. Calgary Transit’s published schedule allows 16 minutes from the Heritage platform to 1 Street SW Station downtown and 18 from Southland, platform to platform, before you add getting to the station, waiting, and the walk at the far end.

Six Calgary Transit routes have stops inside Acadia, counting the MAX Teal line above. Route 99, Acadia/Oakridge, is the local one at 18 stops, and it reaches both Heritage and Southland stations. Route 10, City Hall/Southcentre, runs Fairmount Drive with 16 stops and carries on to Anderson Station. Route 81, Macleod Tr S, and route 15, Deerfoot Meadows, both reach Southland.

For park and ride, Calgary Transit lists 518 free stalls at Heritage and 497 at Southland, plus reserved stalls at $95 a month plus GST that are held until 10 a.m. on weekdays and open to anyone after that.

The Green Line will not serve Acadia. On the City of Calgary’s own station list the closest one is Quarry Park, on 24 Street SE, which sits across the Bow River from Acadia’s eastern boundary, and none of the 29 stations on that list falls inside the community.

No drive times appear in this guide, because no primary source publishes them. Time your own route on a live map, at the hour you would really be leaving, on a working weekday.

Schools

Acadia’s public school pathway is contained, and that containment is the practical selling point. A live CBE Find a School query run in August 2026 at genuine addresses spread across the community returned an identical designation every time: Acadia School for Kindergarten to Grade 6, at 9603 5 St SE, then David Thompson School (7-9) at 9320 Arbour Cres SE, then Lord Beaverbrook High School (10-12) at 9019 Fairmount Dr SE. All three were checked individually against the City of Calgary’s community boundary dataset, and all three sit inside Acadia. The answer also does not change with the address, which removes a whole category of address-by-address anxiety from a family’s search.

Both feeder schools carry programme options alongside the regular stream. David Thompson runs Early French Immersion (5-9) and Late French Immersion (7-9), and Lord Beaverbrook runs an Advanced Placement programme at 10-12.

One piece of history worth knowing, because it will surface if you go looking. Acadia School was given an overflow designation in a CBE notice dated February 2024. CBE rescinded it in a follow-up notice dated December 2024, stating that the school would no longer be in an overflow situation because it had been able to increase classroom spaces. As of August 2026 Acadia School does not appear on CBE’s current overflow list. If you find the 2024 overflow notice in a search, it is real but it is out of date.

On the Catholic side, CSSD’s Advanced School Finder district lookup returns St. Matthew School at 416-83 Ave SE as the regular-programme designation for Acadia addresses at both the elementary and the junior high level, and Our Lady of the Rockies High School at 111 Haddon Road SW for senior high. Both results were single-valued across the Acadia addresses queried.

One clarification that catches people, and it is the street name that does the catching. St. Bonaventure School sits at 1710 Acadia Drive SE, an address that sounds like it settles the question. It does not. That stretch of Acadia Drive SE runs through Lake Bonavista, and checking the school’s location against the City of Calgary’s own community boundary dataset puts it inside Lake Bonavista rather than Acadia. The school does serve Acadia families, but as a Spanish Bilingual junior high choice programme rather than as the regular-programme designation. The regular junior high designation for Acadia on the Catholic side is St. Matthew. A street named after a community does not put an address inside it, and being nearby does not put a school in your catchment.

CBE designations are set by your specific address and reviewed annually, and CSSD’s community-tag search returns every school a student is eligible to attend rather than a single designation, which is a different question from the district lookup used above. Confirm the current pathway for any address you are serious about with the CBE Find a School and CSSD school-finder tools before you buy. For a broader overview of how Calgary school boundaries and programmes work, see the schools resource.

Frequently asked questions

Is Acadia a good community to buy in?

It depends on what you want it to do for you, and Acadia is easier to recommend on substance than on first impression. Over the twelve months to August 2026 it recorded 146 residential sales, with four product types each carrying real volume: 85 detached, 21 apartments, 20 row and townhouse homes, and 19 semi-detached. Half of everything sold between $415,000 and $720,000, homes sold at about 98.2% of list price, and the median sale took 26 days. The public school pathway runs from Acadia School (K-6) to David Thompson (7-9) to Lord Beaverbrook (10-12), and all three of those designated schools sit inside the community boundaries. The Acadia Community Association runs a recreation complex on 90 Avenue SE with a full-size arena, 10 sheets of curling ice and squash, racquetball and pickleball courts. The trade-off is age. The homes that sold here carried a median build year of 1965, so you are buying a home in its sixties and should budget an inspection and a maintenance reserve accordingly. If a settled community with four genuine price rungs suits you better than a new build, Acadia is worth the drive.

How much do homes cost in Acadia?

Over the twelve months to August 2026, Acadia recorded 146 residential sales with a blended median sold price of $598,250, running from a floor of $130,000 to a high of $994,000. A blended median across four product types is not a price for any of them, so the more useful number is the interquartile range: 25% of sales closed below $415,000 and 25% closed above $720,000, which puts half of everything in between. By type, detached homes carried a median of $670,500 across 85 sales, semi-detached homes $722,000 across 19 sales, row and townhouse homes $334,250 across 20 sales, and apartments $215,000 across 21 sales. Those four counts add to 145 rather than 146, because one further sale fell in a fifth product type too thinly traded to publish a figure for. Detached made up 58.2% of the market. Condo fees ran to a median of about $374 a month across the row and townhouse sales and about $556 a month across the apartment sales. For a read on a specific property, a home valuation is the place to start.

What schools serve Acadia?

On the public side the pathway is contained and single-valued, and all three designated schools sit inside the community. A live CBE Find a School query in August 2026, run at genuine addresses spread across the community, returned the same answer every time: Acadia School (K-6) at 9603 5 St SE, then David Thompson School (7-9) at 9320 Arbour Cres SE, then Lord Beaverbrook High School (10-12) at 9019 Fairmount Dr SE. Each of the three was checked against the City of Calgary’s community boundary dataset and sits inside Acadia. David Thompson also runs Early French Immersion (5-9) and Late French Immersion (7-9), and Lord Beaverbrook runs Advanced Placement. Acadia School carried an overflow designation announced in February 2024, which CBE rescinded in December 2024 after the school added classroom space, and it is not on CBE’s current overflow list. On the Catholic side, CSSD’s Advanced School Finder returns St. Matthew School at 416-83 Ave SE as the regular-programme designation for both elementary and junior high, and Our Lady of the Rockies High School at 111 Haddon Road SW for senior high. CBE designations are set by address and reviewed annually, and CSSD’s community-tag search returns eligibility rather than designation, so confirm the current pathway for any address you are serious about with the CBE Find a School and CSSD school-finder tools before you buy.

Why did half duplexes sell for more than detached homes in Acadia?

Because they are not the same product, and in Acadia’s own trailing-twelve-month numbers the semi-detached median landed above the detached one. Semi-detached homes, which is the MLS term for a half duplex, recorded 19 sales at a median of $722,000. Detached homes recorded 85 sales at a median of $670,500. Nineteen sales is a real sample rather than a rounding error, but it is a small one, so treat the size of that gap as directional rather than exact. What the median alone does not tell you is why, and I am not going to guess at a mechanism from a single number. The practical consequence is what matters: a detached comparable will not price a half duplex here, and a half-duplex comparable will not price a detached home. If you are selling either one, pull the comparables inside your own product type. If you are buying, ask which set of sales the asking price was built on before you decide it is reasonable.

What is the Acadia Recreation Complex?

It is the community’s anchor amenity, at 240 - 90 Ave SE, and it is run by the Acadia Community Association, a volunteer-based non-profit established in 1961. The facility describes itself as the largest curling rink in Calgary, with 10 sheets of ice, and it also carries a full-size hockey arena with stands, two squash courts, three courts for racquetball, wallyball and four-wall handball, and two pickleball courts. Alongside the sport space it rents out one large hall and two meeting rooms, opens the curling rink floor as tradeshow space from mid-April through the end of June, and rents a social lounge overlooking the curling rink from April through September. The rental calendar is the part worth noticing. This is a working, booked facility with a year-round schedule.

Where are Acadia's boundaries?

Acadia sits in Calgary’s inner southeast, bounded by Heritage Drive SE along the north, Macleod Trail along the west, Southland Drive SE along the south, and the Bow River along the east. The boundaries were confirmed against the City of Calgary’s own community district boundary dataset. Three of the four edges are arterial roads; the fourth is the river, so the community does not resolve into a four-sided grid of streets the way a map thumbnail might suggest. If you are checking a specific address, the City’s boundary dataset is the authority, since community names in listing copy and in everyday conversation are looser than the official polygon.

Sales data current as of 2026-08-03. Includes 146 residential sales in Acadia over the twelve months to August 2026. Source: Pillar 9 MLS® System. Copyright 2026 Pillar 9. All Rights Reserved.