Enrollment
277
Middle
DISTRICT 319 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TRUMANSBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362898003922
RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL
100 WHIG ST, TRUMANSBURG, NY 14886 · (607) 387-7551 · Tompkins County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL277 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
7.6:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.4:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
80 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL→CHARLES O DICKERSON HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within TRUMANSBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
71.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +15.0pp since 2023
Math
79.7%
NY avg 57.4% . +6.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
68.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
277
-67 (-19%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
7.6:1
was 11.8:1
% White
86%
was 84%
% Hispanic
5%
was 6%
% Black
1%
was 2%
% Asian
2%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About 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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Tompkins County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
104,537
Census ACS
Median income
$74,024
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
59%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
33
10,392 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in TRUMANSBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- TRUMANSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 409 students
- CHARLES O DICKERSON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 271 students
Other schools in TRUMANSBURG
- TRUMANSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 409 students
- CHARLES O DICKERSON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 271 students
Nearby schools
- TRUMANSBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 409
- CHARLES O DICKERSON HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 271
- LANSING MIDDLE SCHOOL6.0 mi · 355
- LANSING HIGH SCHOOL6.2 mi · 371
- ENFIELD SCHOOL6.2 mi · 165
- RAYMOND C BUCKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL6.4 mi · 392
Frequently asked questions
About RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOLHow large is RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL?
RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 277 students in grades 05-08.
What age range does RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 05 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 7.6:1 students per teacher at RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL.
How diverse is RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL?
RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 86% White, 5% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL?
RUSSELL I DOIG MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by TRUMANSBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Tompkins County.
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