John Knight Middle

Located at 455 East A St., in Dixon, California, John Knight Middle is a moderately sized middle school that works with 634 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by Dixon Unified.

Within Dixon Unified, which oversees 5 schools and 2,933 students, John Knight Middle is one campus in the system.

Demographically, John Knight Middle logs that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 24% White, 7% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Solano County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, John Knight Middle has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.4:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Solano County's rate of about 60%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, John Knight Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.1%, the actual is 26.9%, a residual of -11.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Solano County indicate the typical household earns roughly $100,401 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Solano County runs 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,765 students), of which John Knight Middle is one.

Anderson (Linford L.) Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around John Knight Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts John Knight Middle at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 43.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at John Knight Middle has rose 20%, going from 527 students in 2018 to 634 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 31% to 24% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 24.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.