PALISADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PALISADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the expansive elementary campuss in OMAHA, Nebraska, run under GRETNA PUBLIC SCHOOLS, with 454 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 67% bigger than the state mean of about 272.

GRETNA PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 7,013 students. PALISADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, PALISADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 7% Hispanic, 3% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, PALISADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. An estimated 7% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Sarpy County's rate of about 23%.

With demographic context factored in, PALISADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 74.1%; this one delivers 78.7%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Sarpy County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $103,321 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Sarpy County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 34,055 students), PALISADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is UPCHURCH ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PALISADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, PALISADES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 73.4%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 26%: 617 students in 2018 compared to 454 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 93% to 85% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.