E.O. Smith Middle School
Coordinates: 29°46′36″N 95°20′05″W / 29.7768°N 95.3346°W
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.
By Spring 2011 Atherton Elementary School and E. O. Smith were consolidated with a new K-5 campus in the Atherton site.
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.
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