Type Public high school Faculty 105.5 FTEs Enrollment 1,154 (as of 2014-15) Lowest grade Ninth grade | Principal Russel Pagano Grades 9-12 Phone +1 973-450-3500 Colors White, Blue, Gold | |
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Asst. principals Joseph LepoJoseph RotondaDaniel C. Sanacore Similar Belleville Board of Education, Belleville Middle School, Bloomfield High School, Nutley High School, Bloomfield Tech | ||
Belleville High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Belleville, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Belleville School District. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Secondary Schools since 1964.
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As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,154 students and 105.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.9:1. There were 490 students (42.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 127 (11.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was the 294th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 160th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 214th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 241st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
Schooldigger.com ranked the school 311th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 12 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
Athletics
The Belleville High School Buccaneers compete in the Super Essex Conference, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). Until the NJSIAA's 2009 realignment, the school had participated in Division A of the Northern New Jersey Interscholastic League, which was made up of high schools located in Bergen County, Passaic County and Essex County. Its school colors are blue and gold. With 1,108 students in grades 10-12, the school is classified by the NJSIAA for most sports as North I, Group IV for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 1,090 to 2,568.
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are: