Education
Public education in Belmont is administered by the Gaston County Schools public school system. Public schools in Belmont include:
- Elementary Schools
- J.B. Page Elementary School, pre-K to grade 1
- Belmont Central Elementary School, grades 2-5
- North Belmont Elementary School (graduates feed into either Belmont Middle School, Stanley Middle School or Mount Holly Middle School)
- Catawba Heights Elementary (has a Belmont mailing address, but is actually within the Mount Holly city limits - graduates feed into either Belmont or Mount Holly Middle Schools)
- Belmont Middle School - graduates feed into either South Point High School, or East Gaston High School in Mount Holly
- Page Primary School
- South Point High School - The school receives students from Belmont, Cramerton, parts of McAdenville and Mount Holly, and eastern unincorporated South Point Township. In athletics, the South Point High School Red Raiders were winners of the 3-AA NCHSAA Football Championship in 2009, the 3-A NCHSAA Football Championships in 2003 and 1979, the 1971 WNCHSAA 3-A Football Co-championship, and the 2011 and 1981 NCHSAA Baseball Championships.
Private schools in Belmont include the middle school and high school programs of Gaston Christian School. The school has been renting facilities at the former campus of Sacred Heart College in Belmont since 1994. New middle school and high school facilities are currently under construction at Gaston Christian School's campus in Lowell, North Carolina.
The First United Methodist Day Care Center also operates Pre-K and Kindergarten programs.
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