Heartland School of Omaha 

A Level III Service Agency

 5731 S 108th Street; Omaha, NE  68137

402-393-0345            Fax: 402-393-0463 

 heartland3@heartland3.org 

       www.Heartland3.org

Heartland School is a special education day school with staff who focus on students who have been verified emotionally disturbed and/or behavior disordered.  Referred students receive special attention to assist them with their educational needs due to the low student to staff ratio. 


School History Heartland School was a vision of then special education directors George Spilker of Papillion-La Vista school district, and Dick Schoonover of Bellevue Public school district, Heartland School was designed to fill a public school need for a private school setting that would serve emotionally disturbed and behavioral students educational needs. 


Heartland Foundation   opened in 1987, as the Midlands Level III program with a single classroom and one teacher inside Midlands Hospital, Papillion, NE.  Heartland School then moved to downtown Ralston, NE in 1990. Heartland Foundation was chartered in 1995 as Heartland Foundation dba. Heartland School.


In November 2005, Heartland School grew again, when the school moved into it's own facility located at 5731 S. 108th St. Omaha, NE. Currently serving approximately 50 students referred from eastern Nebraska school districts.   


The fall of 2012 brought Director/Principal, Mary Quiroz to Heartland School. Since this time the program has grown to with 6 certified Staff, Para-professionals, Social Workers, Counselors, an Administrative Director/Principal, an Assistant Principal, and an Administrative Secretary.     

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