Cicely Tyson School is a specialty magnet public middle school / high school that serves students in sixth through twelfth grades 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 all their talents. The school teaches core disciplines while focusing on the creative potential of the students.

 

The school's 800-seat theater has been built to Broadway standards in terms of sound, lighting, and acoustics. In addition to the school's other three performance spaces, students have access to a TV studio, art studios, music rooms, individual performance practice rooms, animation rooms, and shops to build and design stage sets.