The top reported proficiency rate is 0% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Howard Elementary School
Howard Elementary School, a regular public school in the Fremont Public Schools district, serves students from pre-kindergarten through fourth grade. The school is located in the city of Fremont, the county seat of Dodge County, a place with a mixed industrial, residential, and civic identity. Eastern Fremont has grown as a bedroom community for Omaha, located about 35 miles to the southeast, while the city itself hosts major employers such as Hormel Foods and a Costco-linked poultry processing complex, as well as Midland University and a Metropolitan Community College campus. For a family considering this school, the immediate context is a mid-sized Nebraska city with a significant industrial employment base and a historic downtown core.
Howard Elementary enrolls a sizable student body for its elementary grade band. The student population is almost evenly split between white students and Hispanic students, each making up about half of the enrollment, with small numbers of students identifying as two or more races or Black. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a student body with considerable socioeconomic diversity. The school does not serve grades that take high school-level state assessments, so there is no graduation rate to report. The school also does not serve grades that participate in the state's general assessment program in the same way middle and high schools do, and the state testing data that is available for the school shows proficiency rates that place it in the bottom quartile among schools in Dodge County for the subjects and grades tested. A multi-year trend shows a notable gap between the school's reported proficiency in English language arts and in math, with the ELA rate rising and the math rate remaining very low across several years of data. A parent will want to ask the school directly about its approach to math instruction and intervention, as this is a persistent area of challenge.
Because Howard Elementary is a pre-K through fourth grade school, it does not offer the kind of course access data—such as Advanced Placement or dual enrollment—that applies to secondary schools; no such program data was available. The Fremont Public Schools district did not have publicly reported recent changes or strategic priorities in the available research, so the district context is limited to what is known about the city itself. Housing in the Fremont area is priced at a level somewhat below the national median, and typical rents are moderate relative to area incomes, which is relevant for families moving into the district.
The school environment is a regular public school; it is not a charter or magnet school. No information was available on discipline rates, staffing ratios, or chronic absenteeism, so a parent may want to ask about class sizes and school climate during a visit. The absence of that data does not indicate a problem but does mean the school's day-to-day operational character is not captured in this profile. For a family looking at this school, the key takeaways are a diverse, economically mixed elementary student body, a consistent difficulty in math achievement that warrants a direct conversation with the school, and a city with a working-class industrial base and growing commuter ties to a larger metro area.
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