Belvidere High School

Belvidere High School is one of the minimally staffed high schools in BELVIDERE, New Jersey, part of Belvidere School District, with 303 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 67% below the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 929 students.

Within Belvidere School District, which oversees 2 schools and 577 students, Belvidere High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Belvidere High School shows that 80% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Warren County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 28% of students at Belvidere High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Warren County (around 36%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Belvidere High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 51.0%; this one comes in at 30.1%, -20.9 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Warren County) shows that median household earnings sit near $100,869, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Belvidere High School is one of 41 public schools in Warren County (combined enrollment of about 15,462 students).

Belvidere Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Belvidere High School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 42.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Belvidere High School has ticked down 34%, going from 458 students in 2018 to 303 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 87% to 80% across the same window.

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