Belleville High School (New Jersey) Explained

Belleville High School
Grades:9-12
District:Belleville School District
Type:Public high school
Principal:Caleb Rhodes
Enrollment:1,499 (as of 2022–23)
Faculty:120.0 FTEs
Ratio:12.5:1
Us Nces School Id:340135001954
Team Name:Buccaneers
Conference:Super Essex Conference (general)
North Jersey Super Football Conference
Colors:Blue
Gold and
white
Address:100 Passaic Avenue
City:Belleville
County:Essex County
State:New Jersey
Zipcode:07109
Country:United States
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Accreditation:Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Belleville High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from Belleville, in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Operating as the lone secondary school of the Belleville School District, the school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1964.[1]

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,499 students and 120.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.5:1. There were 584 students (39.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 172 (11.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.[2]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 294th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology.[3] The school had been ranked 160th in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 214th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.[4] The magazine ranked the school 2008 out of 316 schools.[5] The school was ranked 241st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.[6]

Schooldigger.com ranked the school 311th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 12 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).[7]

Athletics

The Belleville High School Buccaneers[8] compete in the Super Essex Conference, which comprises public and private high schools in Essex County and was established following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).[9] Until the NJSIAA's 2009 realignment, the school had participated in Division A of the Northern New Jersey Interscholastic League, which included high schools located in Bergen County, Passaic County and Essex County.[10] With 1,057 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 761 to 1,058 students in that grade range.[11] The football team competes in the Freedom White division of the North Jersey Super Football Conference, which includes 112 schools competing in 20 divisions, making it the nation's biggest football-only high school sports league.[12] [13] The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group IV North for football for 2022–2024, which included schools with 895 to 1,296 students.[14] The school colors are blue, white and gold.[8]

The baseball team won the North II Group IV state sectional championship in 1965.[15]

Administration

The school's principal is Caleb Rhodes. His core administrative team includes three assistant principals.[16]

Notable alumni

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.msa-cess.org/RelId/606553/AccountID/12071/ISvars/default/School_Search.htm Belleville High School
  2. https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3401350&ID=340135001954 School data for Belleville High School
  3. Staff. "Top Schools Alphabetical List 2014", New Jersey Monthly, September 2, 2014. Accessed September 5, 2014.
  4. Staff. "The Top New Jersey High Schools: Alphabetical", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2012. Accessed December 1, 2012.
  5. Staff. "2010 Top High Schools", New Jersey Monthly, August 16, 2010. Accessed April 12, 2011.
  6. http://njmonthly.com/articles/towns_and_schools/highschoolrankings/top-new-jersey-high-schools-by-rank.html "Top New Jersey High Schools 2008: By Rank"
  7. https://archive.today/20130201215752/http://www.schooldigger.com/schoolrank.aspx?Level=3&findschool=0135001954 New Jersey High School Rankings: 11th Grade HSPA Language Arts Literacy & HSPA Math 2009–2010
  8. https://www.njsiaa.org/schools/belleville-high-school Belleville High School
  9. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-10/2020-2021-lc-officers-schools.pdf League & Conference Officers/Affiliated Schools 2020-2021
  10. https://web.archive.org/web/20090509221527/http://www.nnjil.com/ Home Page
  11. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-11/general-classifications-2018-2020.pdf NJSIAA General Public School Classifications 2019–2020
  12. Cooper, Darren. "Here's what we know about the new Super Football Conference 2020 schedule", The Record, July 23, 2020. Accessed March 22, 2021. "The Super Football Conference (SFC) is a 112-team group, the largest high school football-only conference in America, and is comprised of teams from five different counties."
  13. Cooper, Darren. "NJ football: Super Football Conference revised schedules for 2020 regular season", The Record, July 23, 2020. Accessed March 22, 2021. "The Super Football Conference has 112 teams that will play across 20 divisions."
  14. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2022-08/Football%20%2722%20%26%20%2723.pdf NJSIAA Football Public School Classifications 2022–2024
  15. https://www.njsiaa.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-11/20-baseball-history.pdf NJSIAA Baseball Championship History
  16. https://hs.bellevilleschools.org/apps/staff/ Staff Directory
  17. Strunsky, Steve. "Q&A: Why a tech millionaire built his incubator in Newark", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, November 27, 2016. Accessed July 1, 2019. "Adams is a 31-year-old Belleville High School grad and Caldwell University dropout, whose father grew up in Newark and worked as a manager at Prudential."
  18. Staff. "Belleville resident in charge as newest Smithsonian museum opens", The Record, September 29, 2016. Accessed July 1, 2019. "A Belleville High School graduate was a major contributor to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture that opened this weekend in the nation’s capital. Dr. Lonnie Bunch, Belleville Class of 1970 and also a School No. 5 graduate, has served as the founding director of the museum since 2005."
  19. Schneider, Jeremy. "From N.J. to WWE: Kacy Catanzaro begins pro wrestling journey", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, January 30, 2018, updated January 30, 2019. Accessed November 12, 2020. "World Wrestling Entertainment announced on Jan. 18 that Catanzaro, a Belleville High School graduate who was born in Glen Ridge, has joined WWE's NXT, the organization's developmental system."
  20. Cohen, Gilbert. "Preserving Memory: Newark and Rutgers in the 1960’s And 1970’s - Oral History Interview: Curvin, Robert, 1991-11-30", Rutgers University, November 30, 1991. Accessed February 18, 2022. "Curvin: Well, I went to high school in Belleville, New Jersey, and graduated in 1952. And a year after that I entered the US Army."
  21. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/544152400/ "Four Belleville Men Receive Basic Training Assignments"
  22. Lamberti, Mike. "Belleville grad/MLB umpire Cuzzi promoted", Belleville Times, February 12, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2016. "A 1973 graduate of Belleville High School, Cuzzi long dreamed of being an umpire, but didn't really begin that quest until nearly a decade after high school."
  23. Grushkin, Paul. Rockin' Down the Highway: The Cars and People That Made Rock Roll, p. 190. Voyageur Press, 2006. . Accessed June 5, 2011.
  24. Fink, Jerry. "Vegas man knows 'Jersey Boys': Before Tommy DeVito came to town, he started the Four Seasons, gave Frankie Valli a platform", Las Vegas Sun, April 2, 2008. Accessed April 13, 2011. "He quit school after the eighth grade. (Belleville High made him an honorary graduate last year.)"
  25. Bondy, Halley. "Belleville to honor hometown girl, the resilient Connie Francis", The Star-Ledger, October 22, 2009. Accessed April 13, 2011. "Francis graduated from Belleville High School in 1955. Her first hit, 'Who's Sorry Now?' took off in 1958 after airing on Dick Clark's American Bandstand."
  26. Lamberti, Mike. "Buc Shots: Belleville High grad David Grant reflects on Super Bowl experience", Belleville Times, February 4, 2016. Accessed July 1, 2019. "David Grant, a 1983 Belleville High School graduate, recalls his experience playing in Super Bowl XXIII against NFL Hall of Famers Joe Montana and Jerry Rice."
  27. https://books.google.com/books?id=p_ZEX79VluoC&dq=%22joe+pesci%22+%22belleville+high+school%22 Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of Congress, Volume 136, Part 22
  28. Alvarado, Monsy. "Joel A. Pisano, retired federal judge who presided over high-profile cases, dies at 71", The Record, February 28, 2021. Accessed March 2, 2021. "A New Jersey native, Pisano was the son of Salvatore Pisano, who died in 1992, and Rita W. Bergonzi Pisano, who died in 2009. He attended Belleville High School and graduated from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 1971 before attending Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark."
  29. Childs, Marti Smiles; March, Jeff. Echoes of the Sixties, p. 85. Billboard Books, 1999. . Accessed July 1, 2019.
  30. Uschak, Roman J. "Rock band with Belleville roots, My Chemical Romance, breaks up", Belleville Times, April 18, 2013. Accessed July 15, 2013. "Lead singer and co-founder Gerard Way graduated from Belleville High School in 1995.... Way's younger brother, Mike, the bassist for My Chemical Romance, also grew up in Belleville and is a 1998 BHS graduate."
  31. Kadosh, Matt. "Belleville Tuskegee Airman soars in history", The Record, February 21, 2018. Accessed March 3, 2018. "Willette, of the Tuskegee Airmen's 99th Fighter Squadron, had died in the crash while escorting B-17 bombers over Germany in 1944. The 1939 Belleville High School graduate was one of 66 black Tuskegee Airmen killed in World War II combat."
  32. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/Z/ZuzzTo20.htm Tony Zuzzio

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