Education in Omaha, Nebraska

The Episcopal Church founded Brownell Hall, an all-girls secondary boarding school in Saratoga.

Students came to the school from Nebraska City, Bellevue, Florence, Fontanelle, Decatur and Omaha.

At that time the university was located immediately south in the Redick Mansion at the affluent Kountze Place suburb.

The Academy of the Sacred Heart was opened in 1882 to provide college preparatory education to young women in the Near North Side and Kountze Park neighborhoods; later, the school specifically served women in the Gold Coast and Bemis Park neighborhoods.

[8] Omaha North High School at 36th Street and Ames Avenue occupies a hilltop view covering four square blocks.

Into the 1970s, these were widely regarded as the city's "black schools", with de facto segregation based on residential housing patterns.

[11] As early as 2005, Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers proposed that North Omaha become responsible for educating its own students.

The suburban school districts reluctantly supported the three-district plan, seeing it as the most favorable of the bills proposed.

On May 16, 2006, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed a suit against the governor and other Nebraska state officials charging that LB 1024, originally proposed by state senator Ernie Chambers, "intentionally furthers racial segregation."

Primary and secondary public schools in the Omaha metro area is served by almost a dozen districts.