Dixon Unified School District 170

The five schools in Dixon Unified School District 170 serve students from prekindergarten through high school: three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school, with 2,436 students altogether. In 2025–2026, the three schools with all-grades IAR results averaged 46% proficiency in ELA, 10 points below the state rate, and 39% in math, just 1 point below the state. The clearest area-wide concern is that ELA results are much more uneven across schools than math results.

Madison School stands out in the all-grades results, leading in math at 43.5%—4 points above the state—and ELA at 54.1%; Reagan Middle School was close behind in ELA at 53.5%. The sharpest specific concern is Jefferson Elementary School’s third grade: ELA proficiency was 31%, 16 points below its state benchmark, and math was 37%, 12 points below. Reagan’s eighth-grade science was close to the state rate, only 1 point lower. At the high school, Dixon High School’s 11th-grade ACT proficiency was below state rates in ELA, math and science by 3, 8 and 9 points, respectively, although its graduation rate was slightly higher than the state’s (90.3% versus 89.8%).

Recent changes differ by school: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Reagan and Madison improved in both IAR subjects, while Jefferson fell 2 points in ELA and 11 in math. Across the three schools, average math moved slightly closer to the state result, while ELA fell further behind because the state rate rose faster. SchoolDigger ranks the district 558th of 738, in the 24th percentile, with 1 star; its recent school rankings also declined at Dixon High and Reagan, while Madison’s was nearly unchanged. As context, all five schools reported free/reduced lunch eligible for 2024–2025, with rates from 44% at Dixon High to 61% at Washington Elementary School; student-teacher ratios ranged from 13.7 at Jefferson to 17.2 at Dixon High.