Provides 9th-grade students the opportunity to explore careers and focus on skills for success in high school and beyond.  Students will participate in a freshman seminar course, career exploration, and college experiences prior to choosing an academy in the spring of their freshman year. 

Freshman Academy students will use the Omaha Public Schools NineForNine framework - nine things that will happen in 9th grade. They are:

• Freshman Academy
• Ninth-grade advisement
• Freshman orientation
• Family and school community engagement
• Data walks
• Student portfolio
• Ninth-grade student engagement
• Freshman On-track
• Freshman Jump Start