The state’s largest school district is seeing changes to how its boys and girls basketball teams will be classified, starting this upcoming basketball season.

Following a virtual meeting of the executive committee of the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, the committee unanimously approved a proposal to change how boys and girls basketball teams will be classified in the Newark Public School District.

The NPS, which has six primary high schools and nine so-called “alternate” schools, asked the NJSIAA for a waiver from a newly passed classification methodology in boys and girls basketball. The NJSIAA’s classifications aim for competitive balance by defining the relative size of schools and grouping like-sized schools together for postseason tournaments.