Summary:
In zip code 72662, there is one elementary school, Omaha Elementary School, serving grades Pre-Kindergarten through 6th grade in the Omaha School District with 247 students.
Omaha Elementary School shows a mixed performance profile. The school's strongest area is 3rd-grade English Language Arts, where 59.2% of students are proficient, significantly exceeding the state average of 42.9%. However, the school faces a notable challenge in mathematics, particularly in 4th grade where only 19.1% of students are proficient compared to the state average of 47%. Overall, the school's proficiency rates are close to state averages in most subjects, with English Language Arts at 43.3% (state 39.4%), Reading at 40.4% (state 40.4%), Mathematics at 40.4% (state 44.1%), and Science at 44.2% (state 44.0%). The school has a high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced lunch at 78.14%, and spends $13,594 per student with a student-teacher ratio of 13.8:1.
Encouragingly, the school has shown significant year-over-year improvement from the 2024-2025 to the 2025-2026 school year, with overall proficiency increasing in all four tested subjects. For example, overall ELA proficiency jumped from 34.7% to 43.3%, and Science from 29.7% to 44.2%. Despite this positive trend, the school's state ranking has been volatile, moving from the 55th percentile (3 stars) in 2023-2024, to the 42nd percentile (2 stars) in 2024-2025, and back to the 51st percentile (3 stars) in 2025-2026. A clear pattern emerges where 3rd-grade students perform above state averages, but scores drop sharply in 4th and 5th grades before recovering somewhat in 6th grade, suggesting a need for targeted support in the upper elementary grades, particularly in mathematics.
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