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.Awards, recognition and rankingsThe 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.
