The school system includes three schools in Cross City, consisting of a high school with about 600 students, the new middle school with 500 students and an adjacent elementary school with 700 students, with another 600 students attending the Old Town elementary. Our vocational facility offers high school students the opportunity to pursue careers in health care, automotive, welding, agriculture and business. Lake City Community College supports a distance learning lab and numerous college courses in the area. There are several public parks that are primarily centered around natural springs and rivers, where water activities are abundant. The fall of the year brings avid hunters to the area for turkey, deer and wild hogs.
Dixie County has several doctors, a dentist and an optometrist.
There are also excellent health care facilities of all types in the surrounding areas. A regional shopping mall is located in Gainesville, just under 50 miles to the east. Gainesville also has a museum, center for performing arts, a community college and a major university. Chiefland, located 21 miles to the south-east, is the regional shopping and dining mecca for most county residents. The county is governed by a County Commission, and the incorporated towns of Cross City and Horseshoe Beach with their respective city councils.