I am interested in elementary school / school district rankings in the
Omaha, Nebraska area. I am most interested in relative
rankings of the schools within the area (upto 10 miles away from the
city center), and to a lesser extent how they rank nationally. I seek
a report that is recent and not biased (e.g., I am less inclined to
trust a report by the Omaha public school system, unless you can argue
otherwise). Thank you very much!

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Clarification of Question by manjula-ga on 24 Apr 2005 10:58 PDT

What is my motivation? I am planning to move to the Omaha area, and
want to purchase a house in an area where the public school district
(for elementary schools) is highly regarded.

What have I already done? I've checked publicschoolreview.com, but I'm
not thrilled with ranking of a school by graduation rate. I am a
little impressed by teacher to student ratio. I am most influenced by
some sort of standardized well-accepted tests, if they exist for
elementary schools. I noticed a pay for use site:
neighborhoodscout.com but I was hoping I could avoid this and pay you
instead! I checked out http://reportcard.nde.state.ne.us and their
"exemplary ratings" are kind of useful, but I am looking for more
specificity. I would be most happy if I can find consensus on which
areas are the best for schools.

I have heard that the Millard school district is good from local
folks. I would like to know if schools in zip codes 68114, 68124,
68132 are comparable or better.

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Clarification of Question by manjula-ga on 24 Apr 2005 11:00 PDT

I value standardized scores over parents' comments, graduation rates etc.

This might be a good place to start. See "education" for further exploration.

http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=27514
Nebraska > All counties > Douglas County > Omaha