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Dryden

A town of 13,604 people in Tompkins County, New York
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Town in New York, United States
1803Established
13,905Population
94.3 sq miArea

Dryden is a town in Tompkins County, New York, United States. The population was 14,435 at the 2010 census. The town administers an area that includes two villages, one also named Dryden and one named Freeville, as well as a number of hamlets. The town is on the county's eastern border, east of Ithaca, in the Finger Lakes region.

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The public schools Dryden’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 78% of New York’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.

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