Belmar, New Jersey Belmar, New Jersey Inset: Location of Monmouth County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
Inset: Location of Monmouth County highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
Enumeration Bureau map of Belmar, New Jersey Enumeration Bureau map of Belmar, New Jersey State New Jersey Belmar is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
What is now Belmar was originally incorporated as Ocean Beach borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 9, 1885, from portions of Wall Township, based on the results of a popular vote held two days earlier.
On April 16, 1889, it became the City of Elcho borough, which lasted for a several weeks until the name was changed to the City of Belmar Borough as of May 14, 1889.
The town/city acquired its current name, Borough of Belmar, on November 20, 1890. The borough's name means "beautiful sea" in Italian. Belmar borders the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Monmouth County municipalities of Avon-by-the-Sea to the north, Neptune Township to the northwest, Wall Township to the west, and Lake Como and Spring Lake to the south. As of the 2000 Census, 28.2% of Belmar's inhabitants were of Irish ancestry, the 12th highest of any municipality in New Jersey, for all communities in which at least 1,000 citizens listed their ancestry. In July 1990, the voters of Belmar overwhelmingly passed a popular vote changing Belmar's form of government from a three-person, non-partisan commission form of government under the Walsh Act to the Small Municipality plan 3 form of government under the Faulkner Act.
Under the version of the Small Municipality Plan form applicable to Belmar, the Council consists of four members who are propel for staggered, three-year terms at partisan elections each year as part of the November general election, with either one or two seats up for vote in a three-year cycle.
Belmar is positioned in the 4th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 30th state legislative district. Prior to the 2011 reapportionment following the 2010 Census, Belmar had been in the 11th state legislative district. Prior to the 2010 Census, Belmar had been part of the 6th Congressional District, a change made by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission that took effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections. New Jersey's Fourth Congressional District is represented by Christopher Smith (R). New Jersey is represented in the United States Senate by Cory Booker (D, Newark, term ends 2021) and Bob Menendez (D, Paramus, 2019).
Kean (R, Wall Township) and Dave Rible (R, Wall Township). The Governor of New Jersey is Chris Christie (R, Mendham Township). The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is Kim Guadagno (R, Monmouth Beach). The Belmar School District serves students in enhance school for pre-Kindergarten through eighth undertaking at Belmar Elementary School.
As of the 2013-14 school year, the district's one school had an enrollment of 561 students and 53.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 10.5:1. The precinct also serves students from Lake Como who attend as part of a sending/receiving relationship. The school was constructed in 1909 and has had additions assembled in 1929, 1949, 1969 and 1993.
The single school is two schools in one, a major school for grades preschool through fifth and a middle school organization plan for grades six through eight. Students attending enhance high school for ninth through twelfth grades are assigned to either Manasquan High School or Asbury Park High School based on sending/receiving relationships with the Manasquan Public Schools and Asbury Park Public Schools, in the order given. Manasquan High School also serves students from Avon-by-the-Sea, Brielle, Lake Como, Sea Girt, Spring Lake, Spring Lake Heights who attend Manasquan High School as part of sending/receiving relationships with their respective districts. As of the 2014-15 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,012 students and 67.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student teacher ratio of 14.9:1. Students may also attend Red Bank Regional High School, Marine Academy of Science and Technology, Academy of Allied Health & Science, Academy Charter School, High Technology High School, Communications High School or Biotechnology High School. Students also have the option to attend Academy Charter High School in Lake Como, which accepts students on a lottery basis from the communities of Allenhurst, Asbury Park, Avon-by-the-Sea, Belmar, Bradley Beach, Deal, Interlaken and Lake Como. Mesivta Keser Torah of Central Jersey, a yeshiva and high school for men that serves Haredi students mainly from Lakewood, Deal and Brooklyn, has existed since the 1920s. The Belmar Public Library, one of New Jersey's initial 36 Carnegie libraries is in need of repairs and may be merged into the town's borough hall, and possibly join the Monmouth County Library system.
As of May 2010, the borough had a total of 26.12 miles (42.04 km) of roadways, of which 20.85 miles (33.55 km) were maintained by the municipality, 3.40 miles (5.47 km) by Monmouth County and 1.87 miles (3.01 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation. NJ Transit provides rail transit at the Belmar station to and from Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan, Newark Penn Station and Hoboken Terminal on the North Jersey Coast Line. New Jersey Transit also provides bus transit between Belmar and Philadelphia on the 317 route and service on the 830 route. See also: Category:People from Belmar, New Jersey.
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Students from the Belmar and Lake Como communities who attend enhance high school are assigned based on sending/receiving relationships to either Manasquan High School or Asbury Park High School.
Students may also attend one of the Career Academies in the Monmouth County Vocational School District, which are Academy of Allied Health & Science (AAHS), Biotechnology High School (BTHS) Communications High School (CHS), High Technology High School (HTHS), and Marine Academy of Science & Technology (MAST), as well as Red Bank Regional High School." a b About Our School, Belmar Elementary School.
Manasquan Public Schools 2015 Report Card Narrative, New Jersey Department of Education.
"Manasquan High School receives students from seven sending districts; Avon, Belmar, Lake Como, Spring Lake, Spring Lake Heights, Sea Girt, Brielle, as well as our Manasquan Elementary School students." "From Belmar Elementary, students are slotted to go to either Manasquan High School or Asbury Park High School, as stated to a 56-44 percent formula worked out with the New Jersey Department of Education in the late 1940's." "Manasquan High School receives students from seven different districts; Avon, Brielle, Belmar, Lake Como, Sea Girt, Spring Lake, and Spring Lake Heights.
School data for Manasquan High School, National Center for Education Statistics.
High School Information, Belmar Elementary School.
"Links To The Sending District High Schools: Asbury Park High School / Manasquan High School.
Other Area High Schools: Academy Charter High School / Red Bank Regional High School...
"Academy Charter High School is a no-charge enhance high school for inhabitants of Allenhurst, Asbury Park, Avon, Belmar, Bradley Beach, Deal, Interlaken, and Lake Como." "Crime, school solutions costly as town/city seeks rebirth; High school improving, but not enough, many say", Asbury Park Press, January 27, 2005.
Academy Charter, now in its seventh year, is no-charge to students in Asbury Park and the seven close-by towns that are sending districts for Asbury Park High School: Allenhurst, Avon, Belmar, Bradley Beach, Deal, Interlaken and Lake Como, formerly South Belmar." Monmouth County Catholic Schools, Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton.
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"New Jersey Sandcastle Contest in Belmar has more than 200 entries", The Star-Ledger, July 17, 2013.
"Belmar beach was a assembly zone today filled with castles, a enormous sea horse, a shark titled Bruce and a Kraken.More than 200 entries were made for this year's New Jersey Sandcastle Contest, said John Bonevich, one of the contest judges.
"Belmar First Aid Squad" "The Belmar First Aid Squad was organized in 1927 and is believed to be the earliest autonomous volunteer squad in the U.S." Belmar, New Jersey b.
"He also lived in Belmar and Spring Lake on the New Jersey Shore as a child, where he attended grammar school and high school." "Belmar resident part of the new wave of wrestling", Asbury Park Press, July 5, 2001.
"Sterling, a Belmar native and a 2009 graduate of Manasquan High School, rather than in the top three on the longterm position list of every receiving category." Wikimedia Commons has media related to Belmar, New Jersey.
School Data for the Belmar Elementary School, National Center for Education Statistics Belmar Elementary School's 2015 16 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education Municipalities and communities of Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States Allenhurst Allentown Atlantic Highlands Avon-by-the-Sea Belmar Bradley Beach Brielle Deal Eatontown Englishtown Fair Haven Farmingdale Freehold Borough Highlands Interlaken Keansburg Keyport Lake Como Little Silver Manasquan Matawan Monmouth Beach Neptune City Oceanport Red Bank Roosevelt Rumson Sea Bright Sea Girt Shrewsbury Spring Lake Spring Lake Heights Tinton Falls Union Beach West Long Branch Adelphia Algers Mills Allaire Ardena Ardmore Estates Arneytown Baileys Corner Bairdsville Beacon Hill Bergen Mills Bergerville Blansingburg Bradevelt Bradley Park Branchport Bucks Mill Burlington Heights Candlewood Carmerville Carrs Corner Carrs Tavern Centerville Chapel Hill Charleston Springs Clarks Mills Clarksburg Claytons Corner Cliffwood Cold Indian Springs Collingwood Park Cooks Mills Cooleys Corner Coxs Corner Crawford Corners Cream Ridge Deal Park Dogs Corners East Keansburg East Long Branch Elberon Elberon Park Ellisdale Elton Ely Elys Corner Emleys Hill Everett Fair Play Fairfield Fort Plains Freewood Acres Freneau Galilee Georgia Glendola Gordons Corner Green Grove Hamilton Harmony Hendrickson Corners Henningers Mills Herberts Corner Hillsdale Hilton Hockhockson Holland Holmeson Homes Mills Hornerstown Imlaystown Jerseyville Kirbys Mills Lafayette Mills Lake Club Land of Pines Larrabees Leonardville Little Silver Point Locust Low Moor Lower Squankum Macedonia Manasquan Park Marlboro Matthews Maxim Mechanicsville Millhurst Monmouth Heights at Manalapan Monmouth Heights at Marlboro Monmouth Hills Montrose Morrells Corner Mount Pleasant Natco Navesink Beach Nelsonville New Bedford New Canton New Monmouth New Sharon Normandie North Centerville North Long Branch North Spring Lake Oak Glen Oak Hill Oakhurst Manor Oakland Mills Oceanic Orchard Estates Osbornes Mills Parkway Pines Perrineville Phalanx Philips Mills Pine Brook Pleasant Valley Pleasant Valley Crossroads Polhemustown Port-au-peck Prospertown Pullentown Red Hill Red Valley Reevytown Remsen Mills River Plaza Robinsville Salem Hill Sands Point Scobeyville Shacks Corner Sharon Shrewsbury (Upper Freehold) Siloam Smithburg Smocks Corner Southard Spring Mill Spring Valley Squankum Sterling Woods Stone Church Stone Tavern Stonehurst East Stonehurst West Sweetman Taylors Mills Tennent Tiltons Corner Town Brook Van Marters Corner Vanderburg Villa Park Walnford Waterloo Waterwitch Wayside Wertheins Corner West Allenhurst West Deal West End West Farms West Grove West Keansburg West Shrewsbury Whitesville Whittier Oaks Wickatunk Wileys Corner Winston Park Wyckoff Mills
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