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, New Jersey, United States, 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 Secondary Schools since 1964.
As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,154 students and 105.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 10.9:1. There were 490 students (42.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 127 (11.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
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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. 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. The magazine ranked the school 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 241st in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
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).
Athletics
The Belleville High School Buccaneers compete in the Super Essex Conference, following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). Until the NJSIAA's 2009 realignment, the school had participated in Division A of the Northern New Jersey Interscholastic League, which was made up of high schools located in Bergen County, Passaic County and Essex County. With 1,108 students in grades 10-12, the school is classified by the NJSIAA for most sports as North I, Group IV for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 1,090 to 2,568. Its school colors are blue, white and gold.
Administration
Core members of the school's administration are:
- Russell C. Pagano Jr., Principal
- Joseph Lepo, Assistant Principal
- Joseph Rotonda, Assistant Principal
- Daniel C. Sanacore, Assistant Principal / Athletic Director
Notable alumni
- Phil Cuzzi (born 1955, class of 1973), Major League Baseball umpire.
- Tommy DeVito (born 1936), lead guitarist for The Four Seasons who dropped out of school following eighth grade to pursue his music career, but was named an honorary graduate of Belleville High School in 2007.
- Connie Francis (born 1938, class of 1955), singer.
- David Grant (born 1965; class of 1983), defensive end for six NFL seasons for the Cincinnati Bengals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Green Bay Packers.
- Joe Pesci (born 1943), actor.
- Ines Rosales (Class of 2000), traffic reporter for Good Day New York.
- The Delicates, singing group consisting of Denise Ferri, Arleen Lanzotti, and Peggy Santiglia from the Class of 1962.
- Gerard Way (born 1977, class of 1995), frontman of My Chemical Romance and writer of The Umbrella Academy.
- Mikey Way (born 1980, class of 1998), bass guitarist of My Chemical Romance.
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