The official school colors are orange and black and the athletic teams are known as the Midgets.

DHS educates an average of 1,000 students in grades nine through twelve each year, and employs 60 certified teachers and 35 classified staff members.

In 1909 the community built Central High School, a two-story structure of 12 classrooms.

The first floor contained the library and assembly hall, and the basement served as the gym.

Central High possessed the latest in technological marvels when electric lights were installed in 1910.

In 1994, Dickinson adopted the block scheduling system, in which students attend only four courses a day, each 90 minutes long, enabling them to earn more class credits than in other schools (which traditionally mandate seven courses per day).

[6] According to the Little People of America, as of July 2021, Dickinson was one of five schools in the United States still using a midget mascot.