E. O. Smith Education Center
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E. O. Smith Education Center is a combined primary and secondary school located at 1701 Bringhurst in Houston, Texas, United States.
Smith serves grades 1 through 8 and is a part of the Houston Independent School District.
E. O. Smith is located in the Fifth Ward area.
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[edit] Student body
During the 2004-2005 school year, E.O. Smith had 565 pupils [1].
65% of the students were African-American. 34% of the students were Hispanic. White American and Asian Americans each made up less than 1% of the student body. There were no Native American students enrolled during that year.
All of the students qualified for free or reduced lunch.
[edit] Neighborhoods served by Smith
Smith serves the much Fifth Ward area, including Frenchtown, for both elementary and middle school. The school serves much of the Fifth Ward area and most of Downtown Houston for middle school.
Two Houston public housing complexes, Clayton Homes and Kelly Village, are zoned to Smith for middle school.
A Houston mixed-income housing complex, Kennedy Place, is zoned to Smith for middle school.
[edit] School uniforms
Smith students are required to wear school uniforms. [2]
Shirts must 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 [3]; parents must specify "bona fide" reasons, such as religious reasons or philosophical objections.
[edit] Feeder patterns
All students zoned to Smith's Elementary School continue on to Smith's Middle School and Wheatley High School.
Elementary schools that feed into E.O. Smith's middle school include:
- Bruce
- Crawford
- E.O. Smith's elementary school
(partial)
- Atherton
- Crockett
- Dodson
- Dogan
- Gregory-Lincoln Education Center (Lincoln is K-8 but a portion of its elementary boundary feeds into Smith instead of its middle school boundary)
- J. Will Jones
- Rusk
- Scott
Some students zoned to Smith for middle school are zoned to Wheatley, while some are zoned to Davis High School.
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