RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL

RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL, a modestly sized junior high in TRUMANSBURG, New York, overseen by TRUMANSBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, teaches 277 students, covering grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 48% below the state mean of about 531.

TRUMANSBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 957 students; RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Other groups include 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.4%, the actual is 68.9%, a residual of +4.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Tompkins County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,024, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 33 public schools in Tompkins County (combined enrollment of about 10,392 students).

The closest other public school is TRUMANSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 56.3%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 19% since 2018, when it stood at 344 (now 277). Class-load math has tightened: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 7.6:1 in 2025.

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