Belmar Elementary

Located at 1101 MAIN STREET, in BELMAR, New Jersey, Belmar Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that caters to 400 students (grades pre-K through 8), part of Belmar Elementary School District.

Operationally, Belmar Elementary answers to Belmar Elementary School District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On demographics, Belmar Elementary records that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 35% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

In terms of school funding signals, Belmar Elementary reports 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.1:1. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Monmouth County's rate of about 29%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Belmar Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.5%; this one delivers 46.3%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Monmouth County) records that the typical household earns roughly $124,845 per year, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Monmouth County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 91,053 students), Belmar Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Academy Charter High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Belmar Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.2%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Belmar Elementary has decreased 23%, going from 517 students in 2018 to 400 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 50% to 58% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 today.

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