NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools NJ

Best-Resourced Schools in Belleville, NJ

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10 public K-12 schools in Belleville from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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10
Schools
4,886
Students
53.9/100
Avg Resource Index
14.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Belleville has more public-school enrollment than 54% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Belleville lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

5 of Belleville's 10 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Belleville lists only 10 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 138 to 1,590 students, a 12-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 46%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
94th percentile
Teacher staffing
66th percentile

Belleville High School accounts for 32.5% of all Belleville public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Belleville-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Belleville school enrollment varies 12× across entities

Belleville school enrollment ranges from 138 students (lowest) to 1,590 students (highest), a spread of 1,452 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Belleville operates one school district — a single-district system

Belleville's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Belleville student-teacher ratio is 14.1:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Belleville is typically wider than the Belleville-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Belleville Ps5 63
2. Belleville Middle School 62
3. Belleville Ps4 59
4. Belleville Ps7 59
5. Belleville Ps3 55
6. Belleville Ps10 55
7. Belleville Ps9 51
8. Belleville Ps8 48
9. Hornblower Early Edudcation Elementary Sch 44
10. Belleville High School 43

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Belleville

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Belleville Ps10 59.6/100
  2. 2 Belleville Ps7 51.0/100
  3. 3 Belleville High School 44.3/100
  4. 4 Belleville Ps4 42.9/100
  5. 5 Belleville Middle School 41.3/100

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Which Belleville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Belleville Ps5 has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Belleville schools in this federal-data comparison at 63/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Belleville, NJ? ▼

Belleville has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,886 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.1:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.