Cicely Tyson School of Performing and Fine Arts is a specialty magnet school that serves students in grades pre-k–12 in the city of East Orange, New Jersey, United States, as part of the East Orange School District, offering separate middle school and high school curricula. The school is named for actress Cicely Tyson. Students are accepted based on their talents . The school teaches core disciplines while focusing on the creative potential of th...
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Cicely Tyson School of Performing and Fine Arts is a specialty magnet school that serves students in grades pre-k–12 in the city of East Orange, New Jersey, United States, as part of the East Orange School District, offering separate middle school and high school curricula. The school is named for actress Cicely Tyson. Students are accepted based on their talents . The school teaches core disciplines while focusing on the creative potential of the students.
As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 678 students and 59.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.5.
The school was the 292nd-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2008 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools. The school was ranked 255th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. However, 2009 reports published in the Newark Star-Ledger indicate...
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