The Heights Real Estate

What makes The Heights special

Where is The Heights, and what does it feel like?

The Heights sits on the ridge north of Hillcrest, on both sides of Cantrell Road, with the Arkansas River bluff on its north edge. The City of Little Rock's Heights Neighborhood Action Plan draws it from the Little Rock Country Club and Allsopp Park on the east to Cammack Village, McKinley Street and University Avenue on the west, and from the Little Rock and Western Railroad south to Allsopp Park Road, Lookout Street, L Street and Evergreen Street.

It is the northern half of Pulaski Heights, platted in 1891 and annexed into Little Rock on January 4, 1916. The streetcar reached the hill in 1903 and filled Hillcrest first; The Heights came next, in the automobile era, which is why its streets curve along the ridge instead of following a grid. Daily life centers on the compact village of shops on Kavanaugh Boulevard between Cantrell and University.

What do the houses actually look like, street by street?

The Heights is not one era. The 1920s brought eight new additions to the ridge, including Prospect Terrace and Cliffewood in 1924 and Shadowlawn in 1928, and building continued into the 1960s. The National Register houses here trace the arc: a 1910 Craftsman bungalow at 2108 Beechwood in Country Club Heights, a 1927 English Revival house at 5300 Sherwood in Prospect Terrace, a 1928 Tudor Revival at 32 Edgehill Road, and a 1960 mid-century modern house at 16 Broadview Drive.

Prospect Terrace is the section east of Kavanaugh, north to Centerwood Road and west to Edgewood Road, laid out by landscape architect Henry Wright with curving streets and deed restrictions requiring a house to cost more than $7,500 in 1923. Edgehill, off Cantrell east of Kavanaugh, dates from the same years and holds the largest lots. Country Club Heights is the older tier of Beechwood, Country Club Boulevard and Stonewall beside the Country Club of Little Rock, a private club established in 1902. West of University, the Kingwood, Rockwood and Hillwood streets and the Cammack Village grid are flatter, with more 1940s to 1960s ranches.

Expect brick Tudors, two-story Colonial Revivals, low ranches, and, scattered among them, new houses where an original was torn down. The pattern is documented: the nomination for 2108 Beechwood notes that houses of its sort have often been replaced with larger residences, and the city counted 104 new building permits alongside 283 additions and 420 renovations here between 1990 and 2000. Inventory is tightly held because people stay, and because much of what sells never needs a sign.

What an older Heights home needs

A 1920s house here usually sits on piers over a crawlspace that steps down the slope; have the inspector go under it for moisture, past leveling and rot. Check for remaining knob-and-tube wiring and panel capacity, and run a camera on any pre-1960 sewer lateral, especially under a large oak. The 1950s and 1960s ranches raise different questions: slab foundations with cast-iron drains underneath, low-slope roofs and original windows.

Any house built before 1978 falls under the federal lead-based paint rule: the seller must disclose known hazards and you get a 10-day inspection window. And ask for the permit history on any addition or rebuild.

Which schools serve The Heights? The address-specific answer

The Heights and Cammack Village are inside the Little Rock School District, and the elementary answer splits twice. We checked every address point in the area against the LRSD attendance-zone layer maintained by Pulaski Area GIS, the data behind the district's own lookup.

The first line is North University Avenue. East of it, the Heights is zoned to Forest Park Elementary at 1600 North Tyler Street: Kavanaugh from the 3600 through the 5900 block, Hawthorne, Country Club Boulevard, Stonewall, Crestwood, Edgewood, Sherwood, R Street, Beechwood north of the 1600 block, and the president streets from Pierce to Palm in the 1200 through 3000 blocks. West of University, everything is zoned to Jefferson Elementary at 2600 North McKinley Street: Kavanaugh 6000 to 6399, Hawthorne 6400 to 6999, Kingwood, Rockwood, Hillwood, Pine Valley Road, the Arthur, Cleveland and McKinley blocks north of 1800, and every street in Cammack Village. University itself is split by side of the street.

The second line is Evergreen Drive and L Street on the south. Below it, the 400 through 1100 blocks belong to Hillcrest and are zoned to Pulaski Heights Elementary at 319 North Pine Street. Evergreen Drive and the 6100 through 6500 blocks of Cantrell are assigned by side of the street.

Middle and high school: every Heights and Cammack Village block in the layer is assigned to Pulaski Heights Middle School at 401 North Pine Street and Little Rock Central High School.

What the 2026 rezoning did, and what is still unresolved

In late August 2026 the Little Rock School Board approved new high school zones (Map 3.5) for Little Rock West High School, which opens in fall 2027 at 5619 Ranch Drive. The areas reported as moving are John Barrow, River Ridge and Robinwood, and the board adopted a policy letting students choose a high school outside their zone. Nothing we found moves The Heights out of the Central zone, but we could not open the district's posted map, and the GIS layer still shows the current year.

So the honest answer for fall 2027 and after is unresolved. Call LRSD Student Registration at (501) 447-2950, ask for it in writing if the address is on University, Evergreen or Cantrell, or send us the address. The LRSD Forward plan released September 4, 2026 proposes closing Western Hills, Mabelvale and McDermott elementary schools; Forest Park, Jefferson and Pulaski Heights are not on those lists.

How do you get around from The Heights?

Measured by road from Kavanaugh Boulevard and North Grant Street, the center of the village: the I-630 ramp at University Avenue is about 2 miles, UAMS about 2.5 miles, I-430 at Cantrell Road about 4.5 miles, the Arkansas State Capitol and the River Market each about 5 miles, and Clinton National Airport about 10.5 miles. Cantrell Road is the daily route east to downtown and west to I-430.

Down the hill, Rebsamen Park Road passes the public Rebsamen Golf Course to Murray Park, 166 acres with a boat ramp, dog park, playground and the river trail, about a mile from the village. Sidewalks inside the neighborhood are inconsistent; only 43 percent of residents surveyed for the city's plan said their street had them.

What is daily life like on Kavanaugh, and what about Cammack Village?

The city's plan puts the neighborhood's commercial activity in the area bounded by Kavanaugh on the north and east, Cantrell Road, and University Avenue. That is the Heights village: one- and two-story storefronts with restaurants, coffee, boutiques, a bookstore and services, and it has been turning over. Heights Corner Market at 5014 Kavanaugh, the neighborhood grocery, announced in late April 2026 that it was closing its Little Rock location, and nothing had been announced for the space when we checked. Two anchors we confirmed open in September 2026 are Boulevard Bread Company at 1920 North Grant Street and WordsWorth Books at 5920 R Street; we keep this list short on purpose.

Prospect Terrace Park, 4 acres at 5400 L Street, is the neighborhood park, with a pavilion, playground and picnic tables, and Allsopp Park's 75 acres of ravine trails touch the southeast corner. The tree canopy is what people notice first and what costs the most to keep: old oaks and pecans shade nearly every street, and the trees on your lot are yours to prune, cable and eventually remove. Get an arborist's look before you close.

Cammack Village, a city inside the neighborhood

Cammack Village is 0.28 square miles of streets named Brentwood, Greenwood, Kenwood and Longwood, west of University around the Jefferson Elementary campus. Wiley Dan Cammack built it as federally subsidized housing for the Camp Robinson shortage, and it incorporated on April 5, 1943. Today it has 778 residents, an elected mayor and aldermen, its own police department and city hall at 2710 North McKinley Street, (501) 663-4593, and no commercial businesses; fire protection and utilities come from Little Rock. It issues its own building permits and regulates rental property by ordinance, so read those before planning an addition or a rental.

The Heights Neighborhood Association is a 501(c)(4) civic group at heightslittlerock.com. We could not load its current boundaries, dues or calendar, so ask us or the association directly rather than relying on a listing remark.

What does it cost to own in The Heights beyond the mortgage?

Arkansas property tax is figured on assessed value, which the Pulaski County Assessor sets at 20 percent of market value, times the local millage. Owner-occupants who register a homestead get a credit of up to $600, owners 65 or older or disabled can apply to freeze the assessed value, and taxes are delinquent after October 15 of the following year. We do not quote a bill here; the assessor's parcel record for a specific address is the only honest source.

There is no HOA across most of The Heights; condos and the few planned developments have their own dues, and Cammack Village has city ordinances instead. Flood status is parcel-specific: the ridge is high, but the streets that drop toward Rebsamen Park Road and the river deserve a look at the FEMA Flood Map Service Center. The real cost is maintenance on a house that is 60 to 110 years old under heavy tree cover: roof, gutters, crawlspace moisture, sewer laterals, original windows, and skilled labor for plaster and trim.

Buying and selling in The Heights with the Rackley Team

Buyers here have usually chosen the neighborhood before the house, so the work is getting in front of inventory that moves quietly, reading each era of construction honestly, and confirming the school line, the flood panel and any Cammack Village rules before the offer.

For sellers, the value is in the record and the presentation: every update documented, the house photographed under its trees at the right hour, priced to the block and the era, and marketed to the buyers already searching The Heights by name. Chase Rackley, Principal Broker, Rackley Realty, (501) 519-4889.

The Heights questions, answered

• What school is my address zoned for?
• Hillcrest
• Cammack Village
• Hillcrest vs. Chenal: which fits you?
• Moving to Little Rock relocation guide
• Sell your home with the Rackley Team

Ready to make a move in The Heights? Call or text the Rackley Team at (501) 519-4889. Let's do the deal.