Editing Dickson City, Pennsylvania (section)

== Education ==
It is in the [[Mid Valley School District]].<!--UNI 15170--><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st42_pa/schooldistrict_maps/c42069_lackawanna/DC20SD_C42069.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st42_pa/schooldistrict_maps/c42069_lackawanna/DC20SD_C42069.pdf |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |url-status=live|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Lackawanna County, PA|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2024-11-01}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st42_pa/schooldistrict_maps/c42069_lackawanna/DC20SD_C42069_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref>

While the anthracite coal industry was thriving, there were numerous neighborhood schools: the Columbus School on Main Street between Bowman Street and Shaeffer Street, the Jefferson School on Bell Mountain where Center Street meets Laybourne Street, the Lafayette School on Main Street near Pancost Street, the Lincoln School at the corner of Lincoln Street and Grier Street, and the Wilson School at the corner of Boulevard Avenue and Bridge Street. Dickson City Junior High School was on a block on the block between Jackson Street and Jermyn Street and faced Albert Street; Dickson City Senior High School was next door and faced Carmalt Street.

As the population declined, the neighborhood schools were closed, and the junior high school became a kindergarten through 8th grade school. In 1969, the Olyphant, Dickson City, and Throop school districts consolidated to form the Mid Valley School District. Dickson City Junior High School became Mid-Valley Junior High School; Dickson City Senior High School became Dickson City Elementary School. Currently, the Mid-Valley School District has a single elementary school, and a single secondary school on Underwood Road in Throop.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Klapatch|first1=Joseph|title=The old school : the Mid-Valley Elementary School in Olyphant, Pennsylvania|date=May 2015|publisher=Joseph Peter Klapatch|location=Galloway, NJ|isbn=9781633187276|edition=First|url=http://thebp.site/57084}}</ref>

[[Johnson College|Johnson Technical Institute]] is located just over the border in the nearby city, [[Scranton]].

Dickson City is the location of one of the family service centers for [[Commonwealth Charter Academy]], an online K-12 free public [[Virtual school|virtual]] [[Charter schools in the United States|charter school]].