Dixon High School

Dixon High School operates as a mid-tier 9-12 campus in Dixon, Illinois, overseen by Dixon USD 170. Current enrollment sits at 760 students spanning grades 9 through 12.

Dixon High School is one of 5 schools operated by Dixon USD 170, a district that enrolls 2,436 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dixon High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%); the rest reads as 9% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Lee County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Dixon High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.0%, the actual is 33.0%, a residual of -13.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Lee County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $70,292 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Lee County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,778 students), of which Dixon High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Jefferson Elem School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dixon High School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 44.1%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dixon High School has stayed largely flat, going from 743 students in 2018 to 760 in 2025.

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