Belvidere Elementary School

As a tight-knit primary school in BELVIDERE, New Jersey, Belvidere Elementary School instructs 274 students from grades pre-K through 8, overseen by Belvidere School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 405 students each, so Belvidere Elementary School sits 32% smaller than that benchmark.

Belvidere School District comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 577 students; Belvidere Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Belvidere Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 76%; the rest comes out to 17% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Warren County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. The state averages about 11.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Belvidere Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 42.0%; actual is 17.6%, a gap of -24.4 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Warren County indicate the typical household earns roughly $100,869 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Belvidere Elementary School is one of 41 public schools in Warren County (combined enrollment of about 15,462 students).

Nearest neighbor: Belvidere High School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Belvidere Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Belvidere Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Belvidere Elementary School has edged up 84%, going from 149 students in 2018 to 274 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 86% to 76% across the same window.

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