Belleville High School (New Jersey)

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Belleville High School
Address
Belleville High School (New Jersey)
100 Passaic Avenue

Belleville
,
Essex County
,
New Jersey
07109

United States
Coordinates 40°48′14″N74°09′45″W / 40.803794°N 74.162606°W / 40.803794; -74.162606
Information
Type Public high school
School district Belleville School District
NCES School ID340135001954 [1]
PrincipalCaleb Rhodes
Faculty121.0 FTEs [1]
Grades 9-12
Enrollment1,591 (as of 2023–24) [1]
Student to teacher ratio13.2:1 [1]
Color(s)Blue, gold and white [2]
   
Athletics conference Super Essex Conference (general)
North Jersey Super Football Conference
Team nameBuccaneers [2]
Accreditation Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools [3]
Website hs.bellevilleschools.org/o/bhs

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, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. 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 Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1964. [3]

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As of the 2023–24 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,591 students and 121.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 13.2:1. There were 774 students (48.6% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 217 (13.6% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch. [1]

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. [4] 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. [5] The magazine ranked the school 2008 out of 316 schools. [6] The school was ranked 241st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. [7]

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). [8]

Athletics

The Belleville High School Buccaneers [2] compete in the Super Essex Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools in Essex County and was established following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). [9] Until the NJSIAA's 2009 realignment, the school had participated in Division A of the Northern New Jersey Interscholastic League, which included high schools located in Bergen County, Passaic County and Essex County. [10] With 1,057 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 761 to 1,058 students in that grade range. [11] The football team competes in the Freedom White division of the North Jersey Super Football Conference, which includes 112 schools competing in 20 divisions, making it the nation's biggest football-only high school sports league. [12] [13] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group IV North for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 893 to 1,315 students. [14] The school colors are blue, white and gold. [2]

The baseball team won the North II Group IV state sectional championship in 1965. [15]

Administration

The school's principal is Caleb Rhodes. His core administrative team includes four assistant principals. [16]

Notable alumni

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  2. 1 2 3 4 Belleville High School, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. Accessed November 4, 2015.
  3. 1 2 Belleville High School, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools. Accessed January 15, 2020.
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  15. ↑ Baseball Championship History: 1959–2024, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, updated June 2024. Accessed September 1, 2024.
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  17. ↑ Staff. "Belleville resident in charge as newest Smithsonian museum opens", The Record , September 29, 2016. Accessed July 1, 2019. "A Belleville High School graduate was a major contributor to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture that opened this weekend in the nation’s capital. Dr. Lonnie Bunch, Belleville Class of 1970 and also a School No. 5 graduate, has served as the founding director of the museum since 2005."
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  20. ↑ Cohen, Gilbert. "Preserving Memory: Newark and Rutgers in the 1960’s And 1970’s - Oral History Interview: Curvin, Robert, 1991-11-30", Rutgers University, November 30, 1991. Accessed February 18, 2022. "Curvin: Well, I went to high school in Belleville, New Jersey, and graduated in 1952. And a year after that I entered the US Army."
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  27. ↑ Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of Congress, Volume 136, Part 22, p. 32597, United States Government Printing Office, 1990. Accessed July 1, 2019. "Mr. Speaker, it is obvious from his many accomplishments that Joe Pesci has come a long way since his days singing and playing guitar at Belleville High School."
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  30. 1 2 Uschak, Roman J. "Rock band with Belleville roots, My Chemical Romance, breaks up", Belleville Times, April 18, 2013. Accessed July 15, 2013. "Lead singer and co-founder Gerard Way graduated from Belleville High School in 1995.... Way's younger brother, Mike, the bassist for My Chemical Romance, also grew up in Belleville and is a 1998 BHS graduate."
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