Education in Omaha, Nebraska
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Date: 2022-01-07

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Education in Omaha, Nebraska is provided by many private and public institutions.
The first high school graduates in the Omaha area came from Brownell-Talbot School, which was founded in the town of Saratoga in 1863.
The oldest school building in continuous usage is Omaha Central High School.
In the mid-19th century, Omaha joined other progressive cities in establishing schools for girls.
The Episcopal Church founded Brownell Hall, an all-girls secondary boarding school in Saratoga.
It officially opened on September 15, 1863.
Located at present-day 24th and Grand Avenue, this private religious school was named after an Episcopal bishop of New York, and was first located in the Saratoga Springs Hotel, a defunct resort.
Students came to the school from Nebraska City, Bellevue, Florence, Fontanelle, Decatur and Omaha.
The school moved to downtown Omaha in 1868, and in the 1920s it moved to a central Omaha location.
Today it known as Brownell-Talbot School, and is the oldest continuing school in Nebraska.
Saratoga School at Meridith Avenue and North 25th Street was started in 1866 by local citizens.
The one room schoolhouse was one of the first public schools in Nebraska, and perhaps the first in the Omaha area.
In 1927, businessmen formed the North Omaha Activities Association to re-develop Saratoga School's playing field into a college football field for Omaha University's football team.
At that time the University was located immediately south in the Redick Mansion at the affluent Kountze Place suburb.
With new bleachers built to accommodate a crowd of a thousand, the Saratoga Field was home to O.U.'s team until 1951.
The community was also home to the Omaha Presbyterian Theological Seminary, which closed in 1943.
The Academy of the Sacred Heart was opened in 1882 to provide college preparatory education ...