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DIXIE

Cross City, Florida · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

2,001
Students enrolled
8
Public schools
101
Classroom teachers (FTE)
19.7:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 140
  • Kindergarten 168
  • Grade 1 157
  • Grade 2 143
  • Grade 3 154
  • Grade 4 152
  • Grade 5 147
  • Grade 6 144
  • Grade 7 149
  • Grade 8 130
  • Grade 9 130
  • Grade 10 143
  • Grade 11 136
  • Grade 12 108

By race/ethnicity

  • White 83%
  • Black or African American 7%
  • Hispanic/Latino 5%
  • Two or more races 4%
  • Asian <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

68% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 1,361 of 1,992 students in the 4 of its 6 schools that report
  • Free lunch 64%
  • Reduced-price lunch 4%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$12,912 spent per student on day-to-day operations Florida median: $12,447 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $6,610
  • Support services $5,396
  • Other (food service, etc.) $905

Where the money comes from

  • Local 20%
  • State 54%
  • Federal 26%

Total revenue $28.7 milliontotal spending $27.9 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Rural: Remote

Total staff (FTE)

283

District office

16077 NE 19 HWY BLDG 2, Cross City FL 32628

County

Dixie County

Official website

NCES District ID

1200450

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About DIXIE

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

The Dixie District School System is located in Cross City, Florida, and connected to the outlying communities of Suwannee, Jena, Old Town, and Horseshoe Beach. We are a largely rural Gulf coast county with a wealth of natural resources. Dixie County is nestled between two beautiful rivers, the Suwannee and Steinhatchee. Our schools are the heartbeat of the community. There are four schools within the Dixie District School System in grades PreK-12. There are two elementary schools in our county, Anderson Elementary located in Cross City and Old Town Elementary located in the eastern boundary of our county in Old Town. Ruth Rains Middle School is located in Cross City along with Dixie County High School, which is our one comprehensive high school. Our vocational technical school lies adjacent to and is part of the high school campus, which serves grades 9-12.
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