Belleville PS8

Belleville PS8, a reasonably sized K-5 school in BELLEVILLE, New Jersey, one of the schools within Belleville Public School District, enrolls 505 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Belleville PS8 sits 25% bigger than that benchmark.

Belleville Public School District runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 4,886 students. Belleville PS8 is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Belleville PS8 logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%). Beyond that, the school records 8% Black, 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Belleville PS8 higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Essex County's rate of about 54%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Belleville PS8 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.1%; this one delivers 19.8%.

Around the school, Essex County reports that median household income runs about $80,789, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Essex County runs 249 public schools (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students), of which Belleville PS8 is one.

Belleville Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Belleville PS8 comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Belleville PS8's enrollment has increased 14% since 2018, when it stood at 442 (now 505). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 73% to 81%. Class-load math has grew: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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