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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Belleville PS4 administration to hear?
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Enrollment
438
Elementary
DISTRICT 326 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BELLEVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340135001964
Belleville PS4
30 Magnolia Street, BELLEVILLE, NJ 07109 · (973) 969-4340 · Essex County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL438 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 17% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
342 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 24 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 50 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 61 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 75 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 33% smaller than its 6th grade class (75).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). 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
Based on grade levels within Belleville Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
38.6%
NJ avg 53.1% . +11.9pp since 2023
Math
17.1%
NJ avg 41.6% . +4.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.6% | 17.1% |
| 2023-24 | 26.7% | 12.4% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. 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
21.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% typical for New Jersey 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 Jersey'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 →
Schools most like Belleville PS4
Belleville PS4's state test result (21.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belleville PS4 this school | 438 | 78.1% | 21.7% |
| East End School North Plainfield | 451 | 80.5% | 28.6% |
| Belleville PS8 BELLEVILLE | 505 | 80.6% | 19.8% |
| Pace Charter School of Hamilton HAMILTON TWP | 463 | 79.9% | 52.5% |
| Jackson Avenue HACKENSACK | 438 | 79.7% | 40.7% |
| Park Avenue Elementary School Freehold | 463 | 83.2% | 31.4% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Belleville PS4 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.7% | #1,104 of 1,290 | #92 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.1% | #1,196 of 1,319 ▲ 23 | #115 of 141 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.6% | #960 of 1,319 ▲ 154 | #89 of 141 ▲ 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 438 | #577 of 1,562 | #72 of 162 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.0:1 | #883 of 1,390 | #48 of 140 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.9% | #985 of 1,392 | #76 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.1% | #242 of 1,481 | #47 of 142 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +37.3% | #39 of 545 | #7 of 61 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
438
-28 (-6%) vs 2020
+90% since 1990-91, when it was 231
Student : Teacher
12.0:1
was 13.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 438 | 36.5 | 12.0:1 | 78% (342) |
| 2023-24 | 438 | 33.5 | 13.1:1 | 70% (308) |
| 2022-23 | 452 | 36 | 12.6:1 | 59% (266) |
| 2020-21 | 466 | 34 | 13.7:1 | 53% (248) |
| 2017-18 | 319 | 23.5 | 13.6:1 | 62% (198) |
| 2015-16 | 357 | 27 | 13.2:1 | 66% (236) |
| 2010-11 | 431 | 23 | 18.7:1 | 51% (219) |
| 2000-01 | 348 | 23 | 15.1:1 | 43% (149) |
| 1990-91 | 231 | 15 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Belleville PS4.
Since 2017-18: students up 37% (319 to 438); teachers up 55% (23.5 to 36.5).
About Belleville PS4
Students in BELLEVILLE, New Jersey, attend Belleville PS4, a mid-sized elementary school. The school covers pre-K through 6 and reported 438 students in 2024-25.
Belleville PS4 sits within Belleville Public School District, which has 10 schools and 4,886 students.
About 74% of the student body at Belleville PS4 is Hispanic. Other groups include 10% Black, 8% White, and 6% Asian. By comparison, Essex County residents are about 25% Hispanic. A diversity index of 43% means there is a 43% chance two randomly chosen students at Belleville PS4 are from different groups.
Teacher count: 36.5 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 12.0:1. It is about the same as the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Roughly 78% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Essex County is 54%.
Belleville PS4 earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 17% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Belleville PS4 is 1.8 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 21.7% actual, 23.4% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New Jersey.
The school is in Essex County, where the median household earns about $80,789 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Across Essex County, 249 public schools serve about 145,473 students.
Park Elementary School is about 0.5 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Belleville PS4 is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Local comparison: Belleville PS4 ranks 8th of 9 nearby schools, at 21.7% versus a 33.4% average.
Belleville PS4 has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 6%. The ratio was 13.7:1 in 2020-21 and 12.0:1 in 2024-25.
People can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Essex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
863,002
Census ACS
Median income
$80,789
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
249
145,473 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Belleville Public School District
- Belleville High SchoolHigh · 1,590 students
- Belleville Middle SchoolMiddle · 685 students
- Belleville PS8Elementary · 505 students
- Belleville PS7Elementary · 425 students
- Belleville PS5Elementary · 362 students
- Belleville PS3Elementary · 334 students
Other schools in BELLEVILLE
- Belleville High SchoolHigh · 1,590 students
- Belleville Middle SchoolMiddle · 685 students
- Belleville PS8Elementary · 505 students
- Belleville PS7Elementary · 425 students
- Belleville PS5Elementary · 362 students
- Belleville PS3Elementary · 334 students
Nearby schools
- Park Elementary School0.5 mi · 747
- Carteret Elementary School0.6 mi · 383
- Berkeley Elementary School0.7 mi · 453
- Ridge Street School0.8 mi · 593
- Abington Avenue School0.8 mi · 842
- Fairview Elementary School0.9 mi · 499
Frequently asked questions
About Belleville PS4How large is Belleville PS4?
Belleville PS4 enrolls approximately 438 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Belleville PS4 serve?
Belleville PS4 serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many teachers does Belleville PS4 have?
Belleville PS4 employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Belleville PS4?
Student demographics at Belleville PS4 are roughly 8% White, 74% Hispanic, 10% Black, 6% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Belleville PS4 in?
Belleville PS4 is part of Belleville Public School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.