The top reported proficiency rate is 0% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Oak Valley Elementary School
Oak Valley Elementary School is a regular public school in Omaha, Nebraska, serving students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as part of the Omaha Public Schools district. It is one of the district's elementary-level options located in the western part of the city.
The school's enrollment is small for an elementary building, with roughly one classroom section per grade. The student body is diverse: about two-fifths of students are white, one-third are Hispanic, roughly one-sixth are Black, and smaller shares are Asian, multiracial, or Native American. Data on the share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price meals, receiving special education services, or learning English as a new language were not available in reported sources, leaving an incomplete picture of the school's support needs.
On state assessments for the most recent year, OPS uses Nebraska's NSCAS tests for grades three through five in math and English language arts, and grade five in science. For Oak Valley, the reported proficiency rate was zero percent in every subject at every tested grade level. A multi-year trend view shows a more complex pattern: across the most recent five years of data, the school's math proficiency rate for all students has varied widely, including a reading above forty percent four years ago, before recording the current year's result. The English language arts trend similarly shows a reading above forty percent in the past, with a recent year's result below that. The science proficiency rate has been reported as zero for the four most recent years. These are significant numbers. A parent should look into this further with the school to understand what is happening in the classroom and how recent scores compare to prior performance. When compared to other school districts in Douglas County on overall proficiency, Oak Valley's composite index places it in the bottom quartile.
The school's place in Omaha Public Schools matters here. The district recently launched a wide-reaching initiative called Moonshot, a commitment that all students will read on grade level by 2030. It is built around the Science of Reading and structured literacy, a multi-year shift in how reading is taught. For a family at Oak Valley, that means the curriculum and instructional approach their child experiences will be part of that district-wide effort.
Omaha itself is Nebraska's largest city and the county seat of Douglas County, an urban center with major corporate headquarters and a mix of historic districts and suburban-style residential development. The local housing market in Oak Valley's ZIP code carries home values that are above the typical Nebraska benchmark and slightly below the national median. Rents are moderate relative to incomes, and the estimated monthly mortgage payment on a typical home is in line with median household incomes in the area, though the price-to-income ratio suggests affordability is stretched for many families. The area's unemployment rate was low at the time of data collection, and median household income nationally has been climbing gradually in recent years.
The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to report, and chronic absenteeism data was also absent from the available records. Course access figures and staffing details were not available either, which limits what can be said about the breadth of programming or class sizes beyond the enrollment count.
For a family weighing Oak Valley, the central facts are these: a small, diverse elementary school in a large urban district undergoing a major reading initiative, with state testing results that require a conversation with the school to understand. The school's academic record, as captured in the available data, is very weak. The district's Moonshot plan represents an active attempt to change that trajectory, but it is early in its implementation. The school's setting in west Omaha places it within a stable, middle-market housing area in a city with a strong economic base and a broad set of civic and cultural anchors.
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