Summary:
The five schools in Dixon Unified include three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school, serving between 353 and 990 students. Their 2025–26 all-grades proficiency averages were 32% in English language arts (ELA), 23% in math and 22% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38% and 36%. The largest average shortfall was in ELA, and the group average was below the state in every subject.
Dixon High led the five schools in all-grades ELA at 40% and science at 28%, while Tremont Elementary led in math at 31%. At the other end, Gretchen Higgins Elementary had the lowest all-grades results: 20% in ELA, 15% in math and 12% in science. In same-grade elementary comparisons, Tremont led grade 3 ELA and math and grade 4 math; Anderson (Linford L.) Elementary led grade 5 ELA and math. Even these leading same-grade results were below the state result for that grade. All-grades results cover different grade spans, so they are broad comparisons rather than grade-matched ones.
Average results fell from 2024–25 to 2025–26 by 2 points in ELA, 3 in math and 1 in science, while state results rose; the average school-to-state gaps widened in all three subjects. There were exceptions: John Knight Middle improved in all three subjects, while Dixon High’s graduation rate was 96%, above the state’s 88%, despite its low math proficiency. SchoolDigger’s 2025–26 statewide percentiles ranged from 37th for Dixon High to 5th for Higgins, and all five schools’ percentiles declined over three years. As context, the 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible measure was 77% at Anderson and 76% at Higgins, yet Anderson’s all-grades results were higher in every tested subject; these figures describe a difference, not its cause.
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