The page is showing, but when I look in my chrome element inspector I see a 200 status code is being sent... This is not correct I think... How can I fix this?
If you're using templates, and you want to assign a partial, assign a View object, not a Response object. If you return a Response object (and optionally a status), the template will be ignored.
So if you want to set the response status, you'll have to combine the two: