Dickson Middle School

Students in Ardmore, Oklahoma, attend Dickson Middle School, a low-enrollment middle-grades school. There are 282 students enrolled, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 27% below the 388-student average for middle schools in Oklahoma.

DICKSON runs Dickson Middle School along with 3 other schools, enrolling 1,229 students in total.

More than half of the students at Dickson Middle School are White (58%). The rest of enrollment is 16% multiracial, 12% Hispanic, and 12% Native American. Census estimates put the White share of Carter County's population at about 68%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Dickson Middle School scores 61%.

On staff are 13.7 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 20.6:1. Middle schools in Oklahoma average 15.7:1, 4.9 fewer students per teacher than here. Dickson Middle School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 59%. The rate at public schools in Carter County averages 70%, higher than here.

Census data for Carter County show median household income comes to about $60,723, about 20% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. There are 28 public schools in the county, enrolling about 8,383, Dickson Middle School among them.

Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Dickson High School, is less than a tenth of a mile. Other public schools within five miles: 3.

Federal data place Dickson Middle School in the Rural: Distant locale, which means it is in rural territory some distance from an urban area.

Enrollment figures show a decline of 8 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 20.6 students per teacher, compared with 17.1 in 2020-21.

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