Goals of the Department: Student Personnel Services' Student Personnel Assistants (SPA) will monitor, intervene and alter the attendance pattern of non-attending students, serve buildings and their populations as experts in due process for traditional students and those with special needs, implement the Student Assignment PLAN through placement of students and other duties that are assigned for the benefit of our clients.
To register into the Omaha Public Schools, the following information must be provided:
- Birth Certificate. We collect this document as a part of the Federal 'Missing Child Act' to insure that the child who is enrolling is under legal guardianship of the adult who has physical custody.
- Immunizations. All students must be immunized to protect themselves and others from communicable diseases.
- Address Verification. We ask for address verification because our Student Assignment Plan is based on the student's resident address. OPS accepts various forms of address verification for the convenience of our clients. Acceptable forms include an OPPD or MUD bill, the purchase or rental agreement for the house/apartment where the parent lives with their name on it or, if the student is in foster care, a Superintendent's Letter.
- Physical and Eye Examinations.
The Student Personnel Services Office can help you:
- Enroll your child into school,
- Change schools,
- Help you to select a school in the annual school selection process,
- Explain the Magnet Schools and the selection process,
- Apply for Home School status, Part-Time Enrollment and Nebraska Option Program,
- Monitor attendance and work with students, parents, schools and the courts to facilitate student success through being in school daily,
- Investigate and be first responders to child abuse and neglect situations,
- Use school and community resources to keep children in school,
- Assist in understanding special education due process,
- Seek placement into alternative education schools,
- Connect you with social agencies.