BelovED Community Charter School

BelovED Community Charter School is a large combined-grade school in Jersey City, New Jersey, operated by BelovED Community Charter. The school enrolls 1,573 students in grades K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 68% bigger than the state mean of about 934.

BelovED Community Charter School is a school of BelovED Community Charter, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, BelovED Community Charter School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (32%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 25% Black, 22% White, 15% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Hudson County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly less Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, BelovED Community Charter School has 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.8:1 average. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Hudson County's rate of about 68%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BelovED Community Charter School sits in the top 10% of New Jersey schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 22.7%; actual is 49.6%, +26.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Hudson County indicate median household earnings sit near $91,795, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hudson County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), of which BelovED Community Charter School is one.

The closest other public school is Academy of Technology Design, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BelovED Community Charter School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 45.0%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. BelovED Community Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. BelovED Community Charter School's enrollment has expanded 64% since 2018, when it stood at 959 (now 1,573). The White share of enrollment rose from 13% to 22% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 in 2025.

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