Aspects of the Demonstration Projects Approved in Major Community School Building Plans

East Orange

The demonstration project in Main Street redevelopment area proposes a 1,300-student pre-K through 12th grade performing arts magnet community school combining East Orange's acclaimed Washington Academy of Music and Cicely Tyson School of Performing and Fine Arts. The building area totals 309,000 square feet. Plans entail razing former East Orange High, built in 1911, to create an 11-acre campus with separate buildings for pre-K and K, grades 1st-through-4th, 5th-through-8th and 9th through 12th.

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