Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School

Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School is a four-year high school of small scale in EAST ORANGE, New Jersey, one of the schools within East Orange School District, serveing 701 students in grades 6 through 12. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School sits 25% leaner than that benchmark.

East Orange School District runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 8,348 students. Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School lists that nearly all students (85%) are Black. Other groups include 13% Hispanic. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 36% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School has 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.7:1, putting Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 13% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Essex County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 59.3%; this one comes in at 27.0%, -32.3 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, Essex County reports that median household income runs about $80,789, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School is one of 249 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 145,473 students).

The closest other public school is Cicely L. Tyson Community Elementary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cicely L. Tyson Community Middle/High School comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 11.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 5%: 736 students in 2018 compared to 701 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 93% to 85%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.