E. O. Smith Education Center

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Edward 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.

[edit] Student body

During the 2006–2007 school year Smith's elementary division had 203 students while its middle school division had 412 students.^[1][2]

Of the elementary school students:

• 70% were African-American
• 28% were Hispanic
• 1% was White American
• Less than 1% was Asian American

No Native American students were enrolled. All of the students qualified for free or reduced lunch.

Of the middle school students:

• 64% were African-American
• 35% were Hispanic
• 1% was Asian-American
• Less than 1% was White American

No Native American students were enrolled. 99% of the students qualified for free or reduced lunch.

[edit] Neighborhoods served by Smith

Smith serves much of the Fifth Ward area,^[3][4] including portions of Frenchtown, for both elementary and middle school. The school serves 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, 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.^[5]

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;^[6] parents must specify "bona fide" reasons, such as religious reasons or philosophical objections.

[edit] Feeder patterns

All students zoned to Smith's Elementary School^[3] are zoned to Smith's Middle School.^[4] Most students zoned to Smith's Elementary School are zoned to Wheatley High School;^[7] some are zoned to Davis High School.^[8]

Elementary schools that feed into E.O. Smith's middle school include:^[4]

• Bruce^[9]
• Crawford^[10]
• E.O. Smith's elementary school^[3]

(partial)

• Atherton^[11]
• Crockett^[12]
• Dodson^[13]
• Dogan^[14]
• Gregory-Lincoln Education Center^[15] (Gregory-Lincoln is K-8 but a portion of its elementary boundary feeds into Smith instead of its middle school boundary)
• J. Will Jones^[16] (as of 2006 a Holiday Inn Express is the only area zoned to Jones and Smith that has capacity to be residential)
• Rusk^[17]
• Scott^[18]

High schools with portions of attendance zones coinciding with the E. O. Smith Middle School zone include:

• Davis^[8]
• Reagan^[19]
• Wheatley^[7]

[edit] Notable alumni

• Dwight Elmo Jones^[20]

[edit] See also

Houston Portal

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• E.O. Smith Education Center