Cicely Tyson School of Performing and Fine Arts

Cicely Tyson School of Performing and Fine Arts is a specialty magnet public middle school / high school that serves students in sixth through twelfth grades in the city of East Orange in Essex County, 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 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 764 students and 82.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 9.3:1. There were 505 students (66.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 53 (6.9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.In September 2009, Tyson's historic Elmwood Avenue building (formerly known as Vernon L. Davey Junior High) closed, and a new $180 million, 300000sqft facility on Walnut Street (on the site of the former East Orange High School) took its place. The new facility is among the largest and most technologically advanced schools ever built in the state of New Jersey, with extensive performing arts facilities which meet or exceed the highest professional standards. The school consists of an elementary school and middle/high school.