CHARLES O DICKERSON HIGH SCHOOL

Set in TRUMANSBURG, New York, CHARLES O DICKERSON HIGH SCHOOL is a low-enrollment high school, run under TRUMANSBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It serves 271 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 59% leaner than the state mean of about 668.

TRUMANSBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 957 students; CHARLES O DICKERSON HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, CHARLES O DICKERSON HIGH SCHOOL shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, CHARLES O DICKERSON HIGH SCHOOL records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting CHARLES O DICKERSON HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 26% of students at CHARLES O DICKERSON HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Tompkins County (around 36%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CHARLES O DICKERSON HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.4%; this one delivers 81.7%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Tompkins County) reports that median household income runs about $74,024, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Tompkins County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,392 students), CHARLES O DICKERSON HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

TRUMANSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CHARLES O DICKERSON HIGH SCHOOL at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 54.5%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 14%: 316 students in 2018 compared to 271 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 91% to 82%. Class-load math has fell: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 in 2025.

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