Amid a constantly changing school environment, with the budget cuts and the staff turnover, one thing has remained consistent over the years and that is the thriving athletic programs at Belmonte Middle School.

Starting in the fall, as students return to school, they can participate in either field hockey or cross-country. The field hockey program, started by Belmonte's own gym teacher Barbara Guarante (as well as being the Varsity Field Hockey coach at Saugus High School), has been very successful and houses up to 70 team members each year, which as resulted in many of them moving on to play for Coach Guarante at the high school.

For the past eleven years, Chris Tarantino, a former Belmonte faculty member who currently works with the school as an employee for the Youth and Recreation Department, has annually had forty combined athletes working hard challenging themselves in sports, driven by setting goals. Competing in the 11 team North Eastern Conference, while calling Breakheart Reservation "home," Belmonte has realized many goals and has had plenty of success. Most recently in 2006, Saugus' Dan Drescher established himself as the best middle school distance runner of all time in the N. E. C. as he broke the conference meet course record, his time of 8:53 still stands.

When the fall gives way to the winter months, basketball is next on the tap. Both boys' and girls' teams usually carry up to 15 players on a team. However, that is no indication of the popularity of hoops at Belmonte; where there is typically 80 kids combined trying out for these teams in hopes of representing their school. These numbers have prompted a basketball program prior to the season that is currently being offered to engage more kids in the sport.
Spring is next up and Coach Tarantino is back at it as he leads the enormously successful track teams, largely to do with their upwards of 120 team members a year. Belmonte has enjoyed unparalleled results, and doing so without a home facility has been no small feat, but with the recent construction of the track at Belmonte, student athletes are anticipating hosting a meet for the upcoming 2009 season, having the good fortune of having a league meet to compete in much like a varsity program. Both boys' and girls' teams have finished first on many occasions and have had near countless amounts of individual league champs. Add in the ever growing golf team and talks of a baseball team, and the spring is a hot bed of activity.
Additionally, through the Youth and Recreation Department, Belmonte has a year-round after school program that allows ample opportunity for participants to partake in athletics.