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Edward O. Smith Education Center was a combined primary and secondary school located at 1701 Bringhurst in the Fifth Ward, Houston, Texas, United States. Smith serves grades 1 through 8 and was a part of the Houston Independent School District.
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By Spring 2011 Atherton Elementary School and E. O. Smith were consolidated with a new K-5 campus in the Atherton site.
History
E. O. Smith Education Center opened in the former Wheatley High School/McGowen Elementary School building in 1950. The school was named after Professor Ernest Ollington Smith, the first principal of Wheatley. During the beginning of the 1979–1980 school year, E. O. Smith moved into its final facility. Carter Career Center opened in the McGowen/Wheatley/Smith former building.
In 2010, the Houston Independent School District Board of Education voted in favor of creating an all-boys academy, the Young Men's College Preparatory Academy. It is located at the current site of E. O. Smith. The boys school was modeled on Urban Prep Academies of Chicago, Illinois.
Students formerly zoned to E. O. Smith Elementary School were rezoned to Atherton, Bruce, Dogan, Nat Q. Henderson, Ross, and Sherman.
Students formerly zoned to E. O. Smith Middle School were rezoned to Fleming, Gregory-Lincoln, Jackson (now Yolanda Black Navarro Middle School of Excellence), and McReynolds middle schools.
By 2014 the boys' school had moved to the former Crawford Elementary School.
Student body
During the 2006–2007 school year Smith's elementary division had 203 students while its middle school division had 412 students.
Of the elementary school students:
No Native American students were enrolled. All of the students qualified for free or reduced lunch.
Of the middle school students:
No Native American students were enrolled. 99% of the students qualified for free or reduced lunch.
Neighborhoods served by Smith
Smith served much of the Fifth Ward area, including portions of Frenchtown, for both elementary and middle school. The school served the Fifth Ward area, most of Downtown Houston, and a section of East Downtown for middle school.
Two Houston public housing complexes, Clayton Homes and Kelly Village, were zoned to Smith for middle school.
A Houston mixed-income housing complex, Kennedy Place, was zoned to Smith for middle school.
School uniforms
Smith students were required to wear school uniforms.
Shirts were required to be green, blue, or white collared shirts.
Bottoms must be khaki or navy blue.
The Texas Education Agency specified that the parents and/or guardians of students zoned to a school with uniforms may apply for a waiver to opt out of the uniform policy so their children do not have to wear the uniform; parents must specify "bona fide" reasons, such as religious reasons or philosophical objections.