History and Demographics
Jackson Elementary was reopened as a neighborhood school in August of 1999. It had been closed in 1986 as a neighborhood school. From 1986 to 1999 it served the Omaha Public Schools as Title I offices, as a preschool for the handicapped and as an alternative center.
Currently Jackson has 245 students enrolled for the 2006-07 school year with 88% of the students qualifying for the free/reduced lunch program. A breakfast program feeds about 160 students each morning. Our attendance rate is 92%. We are a majority-minority school. Our largest population of students are Hispanic, followed by Anglo, African American, and Native Americans. All of our communication is put out in both English and Spanish. A large number of the families are non-English speakers, with Spanish being the predominant language.
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