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What's one thing Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
701
High
DISTRICT 1,048 · STATE 929
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST ORANGE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 340423002064
Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School
35 Winans Street, EAST ORANGE, NJ 07017 · (973) 414-8600 · Essex County
GRADES 06–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL701 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 12% of New Jersey public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New Jersey public high schools
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
62 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 12.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
13%
88 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 111 | 16% |
| Grade 7 | 97 | 14% |
| Grade 8 | 95 | 14% |
| Grade 9 | 101 | 14% |
| Grade 10 | 101 | 14% |
| Grade 11 | 105 | 15% |
| Grade 12 | 91 | 13% |
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 37% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
59.1%
NJ avg 53.1% . +10.9pp since 2023
Math
10.0%
NJ avg 41.6% . -3.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.1% | 10.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.2% | 13.7% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NJ schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
27.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.3%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-32.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 59% typical for New Jersey schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School
Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School's state test result (27.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School this school | 701 | 12.6% | 27.0% |
| East Orange STEM Academy High School EAST ORANGE | 646 | 19.0% | 39.5% |
| East Orange Campus High School EAST ORANGE | 1,798 | 8.5% | 7.8% |
| Trenton STEM-to-Civics Charter School Ewing | 562 | 24.6% | 13.4% |
| Burlington Township High School BURLINGTON | 1,118 | 31.5% | 37.5% |
| Creative Arts High School CAMDEN | 209 | 46.9% | 13.0% |
Matched among New Jersey high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #272 of 397 | #24 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.0% | #327 of 400 ▼ 20 | #25 of 39 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.1% | #144 of 395 ▲ 117 | #15 of 39 ▲ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 701 | #268 of 442 | #20 of 42 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #132 of 388 | #12 of 37 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 25.0% | #368 of 389 | #36 of 37 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.6% | #327 of 405 | #32 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.8% | #140 of 200 | #10 of 14 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
701
-41 (-6%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 717
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 11.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 701 | 62 | 11.3:1 | 13% (88) |
| 2023-24 | 695 | 63 | 11.0:1 | 62% (430) |
| 2022-23 | 711 | 60 | 11.8:1 | 61% (437) |
| 2020-21 | 742 | 67 | 11.1:1 | 69% (513) |
| 2017-18 | 736 | 71 | 10.4:1 | 56% (410) |
| 2015-16 | 750 | 81 | 9.3:1 | 63% (469) |
| 2010-11 | 872 | 72 | 12.1:1 | 65% (566) |
| 2000-01 | 698 | 58 | 12.0:1 | 29% (201) |
| 1990-91 | 717 | 54 | 13.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (736 to 701); teachers down 13% (71 to 62).
About Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School
Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School is a small high school in East Orange School District, located in EAST ORANGE, New Jersey. Total enrollment is 701 students, and the grades served are 6 through 12. By comparison, high schools in New Jersey enroll about 929 students on average.
East Orange School District runs Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School along with 18 other schools, enrolling 8,348 students in total.
At Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School, 85% of students are Black. It is also 13% Hispanic. For comparison, the population of Essex County is roughly 36% Black. The diversity index for Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School is 25%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school's 62 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.3:1. Compared with the 12.7:1 average for high schools in New Jersey, this school's ratio is lower. The school has 13% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Essex County averages 54%, higher than here.
Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 12% of New Jersey public high schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School is in the bottom 10% of New Jersey schools: 27.0% actual against 59.3% predicted.
Looking at the county, Essex County, median household income comes to about $80,789, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School, Essex County has 249 public schools.
The closest school to Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School is Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary School, located less than a tenth of a mile away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Local comparison: Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School ranks 1st of 5 nearby schools, at 27.0% versus an 11.8% average.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment fell 6% over 4 years, reaching 701 in 2024-25.
People can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Essex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
863,002
Census ACS
Median income
$80,789
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
249
145,473 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in East Orange School District
- East Orange Campus High SchoolHigh · 1,798 students
- East Orange STEM Academy High SchoolHigh · 646 students
- Edward T. Bowser Sr. School of ExcellenceElementary · 612 students
- Langston Hughes Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary SchoolElementary · 481 students
- Shelia Y. Oliver AcademyElementary · 413 students
Other schools in EAST ORANGE
- East Orange Campus High SchoolHigh · 1,798 students
- East Orange STEM Academy High SchoolHigh · 646 students
- Edward T. Bowser Sr. School of ExcellenceElementary · 612 students
- Langston Hughes Elementary SchoolElementary · 554 students
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary SchoolElementary · 481 students
- East Orange Community Charter SchoolElementary · 414 students
Nearby schools
- Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary School0.1 mi · 481
- Althea Gibson Academy0.3 mi · 144
- J. Garfield Jackson Sr. Academy0.4 mi · 247
- Edward T. Bowser Sr. School of Excellence0.5 mi · 612
- Patrick F. Healy Middle School0.6 mi · 322
- Sojourner Truth Middle School0.6 mi · 264
Frequently asked questions
About Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High SchoolHow many students attend Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School?
Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School enrolls approximately 701 students in grades 06-12.
Is Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School is a high school covering grades 06-12.
How many students per teacher at Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School?
Approximately 11.3:1 students per teacher at Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School.
How diverse is Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School?
Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School reports a student body of 1% White, 13% Hispanic, 85% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School?
Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School is overseen by East Orange School District in Essex County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.