Belleville Middle School

Belleville Middle School is one of the reasonably sized middle schools in BELLEVILLE, New Jersey, one of the schools within Belleville Public School District, with 685 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8.

Belleville Public School District comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 4,886 students; Belleville Middle School is among them.

Demographically, Belleville Middle School logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 75%; the rest reads as 9% White, 8% Black, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. The state averages about 10.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 72% of students at Belleville Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Essex County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Belleville Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.0%; this one delivers 25.6%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Essex County indicate median household income runs about $80,789, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Belleville Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Hornblower Early Childhood Center, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Belleville Middle School. On composite proficiency, Belleville Middle School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 39.7%.

Belleville Middle School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Belleville Middle School's enrollment has shrank 30% since 2018, when it stood at 973 (now 685). Hispanic enrollment moved from 67% to 75% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.