As of 2012, Eagle Academy of Newark is the only all-boys' public school in the State of New Jersey.

[3] It is Newark's first single-gender public school;[4] it has a university preparatory curriculum and has small class sizes.

[5] The first principal was Vaughn Thompson, who had previously worked at the Young Scholars Academy of Bronx and had resigned from there.

[3] In 2012, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey stated that if boys have a single gender school, girls should have the same opportunity.

[3] NPS later opened Girls' Academy of Newark as the all-girl counterpart.